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Green Chem., 2003, 5, 177 - 180, DOI: 10.1039/b211968d


Synthesis of quinolines, pyridine ligands and biological probes in green media

T. A. Bryson, J. M. Gibson, J. J. Stewart, H. Voegtle, A. Tiwari, J. H. Dawson, W. Marley and B. Harmon


Nitrogen heterocycles are prepared using hot pressurized water under microwave and thermal conditions. Selective reduction, cyclodehydrations (Friedländer and Pfitzinger syntheses), Suzuki coupling, and ligand exchange have been effected in water or water–protic solvent media.

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