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Synthesis 2008(11): 1676-1678
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1067044
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1067044
SHORTPAPER
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
A Stereospecific Route to (Z)-Urocanic Acids
Further Information
Received
4 February 2008
Publication Date:
29 April 2008 (online)
Publication History
Publication Date:
29 April 2008 (online)

Abstract
(Z)-Urocanic acid and its derivatives can be made stereospecifically by ring-opening of pyrrolo[1,2-c]imidazol-5-ones in aqueous tetrahydrofuran.
Key words
gas-phase reactions - hydrolyses - heterocycles - lactams - urocanic acids
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