Overview of the proposed synthesis strategy (IMAGE)

Tokyo University of Science

Overview of the proposed synthesis strategy

Caption

Capitalizing on recent techniques for synthesizing arynes (the left and right organic molecules shown as reactants), researchers developed an innovative way of joining them using thiourea, creating a thioxanthone skeleton (depicted on the right side).

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Suguru Yoshida from Tokyo University of Science, Japan

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