Concise Synthesis of v-Coelenterazines

…, Y Sumida, Y Sahara-Miura, J Sato, S Inouye

Index: Nakamura, Hideshi; Wu, Chun; Murai, Akio; Inouye, Satoshi; Shimomura, Osamu Tetrahedron Letters, 1997 , vol. 38, # 36 p. 6405 - 6406

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Abstract

A novel synthetic method for v-coelenterazine (v-CTZ), which is a vinylene-bridged analog of native CTZ with a large red-shifted luminescence property, is described. The synthesis was achieved in a concise way through the use of three sequential cross-coupling reactions and