ChemInform Abstract: A Ligand-Free, Copper-Catalyzed Cascade Sequence to Indole-2-carboxylic Esters.

✍ Scribed by Stefan G. Koenig; John W. Dankwardt; Yanbin Liu; Hang Zhao; Surendra P. Singh

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 33 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201113085

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

It is demonstrated, that the reaction of o‐halobenzaldehydes and amidoacetates offers a ready access to the title compounds without the need of an external ligand.