Abstract
Molecules possessing harmine moiety are reported to exhibit marked fungicidal and bactericidal activities. In this study, various quinozilinium tetrafluoroborate salts were synthesized using acylic and cyclic oxoketene dithioacetals followed by cycloaromatization from Harmine. All of these synthesized compounds were characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR, Mass and CHN analysis. This methodology would find wide usage in the preparation of indolo quinozilinium -based library of small molecules useful for medicinal chemistry and in drug discovery.
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Musunuri, S., Sreenivasulu, R., Mak, KK. et al. Synthesis of quinozilinium fluoroborate salts from harmine. Carbon Lett. 31, 297–305 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42823-020-00165-7
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