Discovery of an imidazo-phenanthridine synthon produced in a 'five-step one-pot reaction'leading to a new family of heterocycles with novel physical properties

…, YF Song, LV Smith, E Burkholder, L Cronin

Index: Parenty, Alexis D. C.; Guthrie, Kevin M.; Song, Yu-Fei; Smith, Louise V.; Burkholder, Eric; Cronin, Leroy Chemical Communications, 2006 , # 11 p. 1194 - 1196

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Abstract

A new class of heterocyclic aromatic cation with novel physical properties has been constructed by an unprecedented reaction pathway that proceeds via five spontaneous steps to yield a 'synthon'that can be further derivatised by a final nucleophilic substitution step.