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Synfacts 2011(12): 1306-1306  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1289388
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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High-Yielding One-Pot Synthesis of Oxazine Photochromes

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Jan M. Schnorr
W. Zhao*, E. M. Carreira*
ETH Zürich, Switzerland; Henan University, Kaifeng and Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. of China
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18 November 2011 (online)

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Significance

Photochromic oxazines are an ­interesting class of compounds for the use in ­ophthalmic lenses. The authors present a one-pot synthesis that yields such molecules (3) in very good yields starting from acrylic acids 1.