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DOI: 10.1039/C7OB03104A
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Scheme 3 Synthetic elaboration of nitro-azabicycles
3 to biologically active analogues 6–10
Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Chulabhorn
Research Institute, Mahidol University, the Institute for the
Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology through the
Research Fund for DPST Graduate with First Placement (Grant
No. 010/2557 to W.D.), and the Science and Technology
Research Grants from the Thailand Toray Science Foundation.
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