3-Cyanomethyl-2-vinylindoles as thermal indole-2,3-quinodimethane equivalents: synthesis of functionalized 1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarbazoles

✍ Scribed by Marie Laronze; Janos Sapi

• Book ID: 104252139
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 288 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(02)01907-x

✦ Synopsis

Electron-donating substituted 3-cyanomethyl-2-vinylindoles were found to rearrange via thermal [1,5]H shift into the corresponding indole-2,3-quinodimethanes which were trapped by dienophiles to afford tetrahydrocarbazoles.