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Synthetic Pathways to Pyrido[3,4-c]pyridazines and Their Polycyclic Derivatives

Temitayo Omowumi Alegbejo Price, Flavio Emery, Wim Dehaen

Organics · pp. 430–445 · Published 18 Oct 2022

10.3390/org3040028

Abstract

Pyrido[3,4-c]pyridazines are nitrogen-containing scaffolds that have been described as being promising in medicinal chemistry, but they are rather rare chemicals. In this review article, the literature on synthetic pathways towards pyrido[3,4-c]pyridazines is listed exhaustively, first with the bicyclic systems themselves that are obtained starting either from pyridines, pyridazines or other heterocycles. Then, the reports on the related tricyclic derivatives are discussed, again according to the source heterocycle, and finally we mention some examples on polycyclic systems.

Chemistry Bicyclic molecule Tricyclic Combinatorial chemistry Stereochemistry

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