New Synthetic Routes to Furocoumarins and Their Analogs: A Review

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New Synthetic Routes to Furocoumarins and Their Analogs: A Review

Valery F. Traven

Department of Organic Chemistry, D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia 125047, Moscow, Russia

Received: 27 January 2004 / Accepted: 25 February 2004 / Published: 28 February 2004

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biologically Relevant Heterocyclic Compounds)

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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 α-carbonyl compounds under base catalysis and transformations of dihydrofurocoumarinones are new trends in synthesis of furocoumarins and their analogs.

Keywords: Furocoumarins; furocoumarin analogs; psoralens; Fries rearrangements.

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Traven, V.F. New Synthetic Routes to Furocoumarins and Their Analogs: A Review. Molecules 2004, 9, 50-66.

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Traven VF. New Synthetic Routes to Furocoumarins and Their Analogs: A Review. Molecules. 2004; 9(3):50-66.

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Traven, Valery F. 2004. "New Synthetic Routes to Furocoumarins and Their Analogs: A Review." Molecules 9, no. 3: 50-66.

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