%0 Journal Article %J Synthesis-Stuttgart %D 2014 %T Concise account of the chemistry of valuable alkyl(methyl)maleic anhydrides %A Deore, Prashant S. %A Haval, Kishan P. %A Gadre, Smita R. %A N. P. Argade %K alkyl(methyl)maleic anhydrides %K bioactivity %K dimethylmaleic anhydride %K isolation %K nucleophilic reactions %K Total synthesis %X

A large number of significant bioactive natural and synthetic alkyl(methyl)maleic anhydrides are known in the contemporary literature. A broad range of suitably functionalized substrates have been tailored to accomplish concise and efficient syntheses of an array of alkyl(methyl)maleic anhydrides employing a variety of elegant synthetic strategies. This review presents a brief literature account of the isolation and activity of these important target compounds with a special emphasis on their synthesis.

%B Synthesis-Stuttgart %I GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG %C RUDIGERSTR 14, D-70469 STUTTGART, GERMANY %V 46 %P 2683-2700 %8 OCT %G eng %N 20 %9 Review %3 Foreign %4 2.652 %R 10.1055/s-0034-1378665