New synthetic routes to furocoumarins and their analogs: a review.
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.
Traven
Valery F
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Department of Organic Chemistry, D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia 125047, Moscow, Russia. traven@muctr.edu.ru
D002384:Catalysis; D011564:Furocoumarins / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D017319:Photosensitizing Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry
D011564:Furocoumarins; D017319:Photosensitizing Agents