ChemInform Abstract: A Flexible Synthesis of Indoles from ortho-Substituted Anilines: A Direct Synthesis of Isocryptolepine.

✍ Scribed by George A Kraus; Haitao Guo; Ganesh Kumar; Gerald III Pollock; Heather Carruthers; Divya Chaudhary; Jonathan Beasley

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 30 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201035120

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Various types of substrates are used as efficient precursors for the synthesis of indoles via imine formation with aldehydes followed by base‐promoted cyclization.