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The synthesis of some novel stilbene dimers incorporating diamide tethers: studies in single electron transfer oxidation (FeCl₃).

ABSTRACT: The FeCl₃ oxidative cascade reaction of the acetamido stilbene 1 which we reported some years ago produced the first atropodiastereomeric indolostilbene hybrid 3. By contrast, recent investigation of the oxidation of the stilbene succinamide dimer 72 (FeCl₃/CH₂Cl₂) appears, on the basis of spectroscopic evidence, to have produced the bridged macrocyclic indoline 73.

SUBMITTER: Alehashem MS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9077395 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

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The synthesis of some novel stilbene dimers incorporating diamide tethers: studies in single electron transfer oxidation (FeCl3).

Alehashem Maryam Sadat MS Ariffin Azhar A Qatran Al-Khdhairawi Amjad Ayad AA Thomas Noel F NF

RSC advances 20180111 5

The FeCl3 oxidative cascade reaction of the acetamido stilbene 1 which we reported some years ago produced the first atropodiastereomeric indolostilbene hybrid 3. By contrast, recent investigation of the oxidation of the stilbene succinamide dimer 72 (FeCl3/CH2Cl2) appears, on the basis of spectroscopic evidence, to have produced the bridged macrocyclic indoline 73. ...[more]

PMID: 35541461

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