Facile synthesis of 2-substituted 4-azaindoles

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2187-2193

  Sun, Li Ping ^a   Wang, Jin Xin ^a  

^a CHINA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Azaindoles; Heteroannulation; Pd catalyzed cross coupling reaction; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

1H PYRROLO[3,2 B]PYRIDINE; 2 PHENYL 1H PYRROLO[3,2 B]PYRIDINE; 2 PROPYL 1H PYRROLO[3,2 B]PYRIDINE; 3 (1H PYRROLO[3,2 B]PYRIDIN 2 YL)PROPAN 1 OL; 4 (1H PYRROLO[3,2 B]PYRIDIN 2 YL)BUTYRONITRILE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PALLADIUM; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANNULATION REACTION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; SONOGASHIRA REACTION;

EID: 34447124503     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910701397359     Document Type: Article

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