Easy access to aryl- and heteroaryl-annulated[a]carbazoles by the indium-catalyzed reaction of 2-arylindoles with propargyl ethers

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1336-1340

  Tsuchimoto, Teruhisa ^a   Matsubayashi, Hiromichi ^a   Kaneko, Masayoshi ^a   Shirakawa, Eiji ^b   Kawakami, Yusuke ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annulation; Fused ring systems; Heterocycles; Indium; Lewis acids

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CATALYSTS; ETHERS; INDIUM; REACTION KINETICS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

BOND-FORMING REACTIONS; INDOLES; PROPARGYL ETHERS;

NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

CARBAZOLE DERIVATIVE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; INDIUM; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; LEWIS ACID;

ANNULATION REACTION; ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

ALKYNES; CARBAZOLES; CATALYSIS; CYCLIZATION; ETHERS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS WITH 4 OR MORE RINGS; INDIUM; INDOLES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYCYCLIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 14844286829     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200462280     Document Type: Article

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