Cut-to-Fuse Technique: Rebuilding Molecules with Chlorine (IMAGE)

Ritsumeikan University

Cut-to-Fuse Technique: Rebuilding Molecules with Chlorine

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Researchers use a “cut-to-fuse” strategy, in which halogenation triggers bond cleavage and subsequent molecular reconstruction, converting hydroxycoumarins into valuable coumaranone scaffolds under mild conditions.

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Toshifumi Dohi from Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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