Photoinduced 1,4-additions of indoles to enones

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 676-679

  Moran, Joseph ^a   Suen, Tanya ^a   Beauchemin, André M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; IRRADIATION; PHOTOELECTRICITY; SOLUTIONS; SOLVENTS;

ELECTRON-WITHDRAWING; INDOLES; LEWIS ACID; SOLVENT EFFECTS;

KETONES;

ENONE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; LEWIS ACID; METHYL CHLORIDE; REAGENT; SOLVENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADDITION REACTION; ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRODUCT RECOVERY; REACTION ANALYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

EID: 30744444198     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo0521044     Document Type: Article

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