The chemistry of vicinal tricarbonyls a
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Harry H. Wasserman; Louis J. Lombardo
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Article
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1989
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Elsevier Science
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French
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The addition of primary amines to alkenyl vicinal tricarbonyls leads to Ssubstituted-3-hydroxypyrroles. This reaction has been employed in a synthesis of the 2formyl-3-methoxy-a,a'-bipyrrole precursor of the prodigiosin family of natural products.