An expedient synthesis of homophthalimides

Béatrice Quiclet-Sire (1) , Samir Z. Zard (1)

1 DCSO - Laboratoire de synthèse organique

The six-membered heterocyclic subunit of homophthalimides can be obtained by a direct, hitherto unprecedented, radical cyclisation onto an aromatic ring starting from a xanthate precursor.

Béatrice Quiclet-Sire, Samir Z. Zard. An expedient synthesis of homophthalimides. Chemical Communications, 2002, 20, pp.2306-2307. ⟨10.1039/B207649G⟩. ⟨hal-00954854⟩