One??Pot Reactions Accelerate the Synthesis of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients

…, P Winter, M Christmann

Index: Vaxelaire, Carine; Winter, Philipp; Christmann, Mathias Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2011 ,  vol. 50,  # 16  p. 3605 - 3607

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Abstract

The word “Eintopf”(lit. Engl. one pot) is used generically in the German language to describe a simplistic technique of cooking all the ingredients of a meal in a single pot. It has also found its way into the chemical language as “one-pot reaction” or “one-pot process”, in particular to emphasize that a sequence of chemical transformations is run in a single flask. Similar to the cook in the kitchen, synthetic chemists strive to save time and resources by ...