Synthesis of the key intermediate of ramelteon

• Shan Bao Yu ^a, ,
• Hao Min Liu ^a, ,
• Yu Luo ^a, ,
• Wei Lu ^b,

• a Department of Chemistry, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China;

• b Institute of Drug Discovery and Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

• Received Date: 16 July 2010
  
• Fund Project:

  We gratefully acknowledge the Shanghai Municipal Natural Science Foundation (No. 10ZR1409600). We also thank Lab of Organic Functional Molecules, the Sino-French Institute of ECNU for supports.