An expedient synthesis of homophthalimides.
The six-membered heterocyclic subunit of homophthalimides can be obtained by a direct, hitherto unprecedented, radical cyclisation onto an aromatic ring starting from a xanthate precursor.
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Béatrice
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Laboratoire de Synthèse Organique associé au CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau, France.
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Samir Z
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