ChemInform Abstract: Well-Defined NHC—Pd Complex-Mediated Intermolecular Direct Annulations for Synthesis of Functionalized Indoles (NHC = N-Heterocyclic Carbene).

✍ Scribed by Zhong Jin; Su-Xian Guo; Ling-Ling Qiu; Gui-Ping Wu; Jian-Xin Fang

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 31 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201146114

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A series of functionalized indoles is synthesized from o‐haloanilines and ketones catalyzed by a N‐heterocyclic carbene—Pd complex such as PIPR.