title: New synthetic routes to furocoumarins and their analogs: a review.
abstract: 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 alpha-carbonyl compounds under base catalysis and transformations of dihydrofurocoumarinones are new trends in synthesis of furocoumarins and their analogs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Organic Chemistry, D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia 125047, Moscow, Russia. traven@muctr.edu.ru
authors.forename: Valery F
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Traven
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D011564:Furocoumarins / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D017319:Photosensitizing Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D011564:Furocoumarins; D017319:Photosensitizing Agents