Photoreaction of thiobenzamide with furans in methahol. Facile construction of the arylpyrrole ring system

K Oda, M Machida

Index: Oda; Machida Journal of the Chemical Society - Series Chemical Communications, 1993 , # 5 p. 437 - 438

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 5

Abstract

The pyrrole ring is an important structural unit in many biologically active compounds. These compounds have been found in microorganisms, plants, and higher organisms, and some of them have antibiotic properties.* For example, pyrronitrin3 and pyroluteorin4 which have arylpyrrole nuclei were isolated from Pseudomonas pyrrocinia and P. aerugi- nosa, respectively, and their analogues have been synthesized because of their antibiotic activity. Although the ...