New Synthetic Routes to Furocoumarins and Their Analogs: A Review

Many furocoumarins and their analogs possess a prominent photobiological activity. Some of them are successfully used as drugs in phototherapy of skin diseases. Fries rearrangement of acyloxyheteroarenes, condensation of acylhydroxyheteroarenes with α-carbonyl compounds under base catalysis and t...

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Main Author: Valery F. Traven
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2004-02-01
Series:Molecules
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/9/3/50/