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Carbenes in the synthesis of heterocycles (review)

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Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds Aims and scope

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The syntheses of heterocyclic compounds by reactions of carbenes with carbon-heteroatom multiple bonds, isomerization of unstable adducts of carbenes to carbon-carbon bonds, and the incorporation of carbenes in C-H, C-N, and C-O bonds are examined.

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Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 11, pp. 1443–1464, November, 1976.

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Kostikov, R.R., Khlebnikov, A.F. Carbenes in the synthesis of heterocycles (review). Chem Heterocycl Compd 12, 1191–1207 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00470213

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