A palladium-catalyzed alkylation/direct arylation synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1888-1897

  Blaszykowski, Christophe ^a   Aktoudianakis, Evangelos ^a,b   Alberico, Dino ^a,c   Bressy, Cyril ^a,d   Hulcoop, David G ^a   Jafarpour, Farnaz ^a,e   Joushaghani, Arash ^a   Laleu, Benoît ^a   Lautens, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Gilead   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARYL-HETEROARYL BOND; CATALYZED SEQUENCE; RING-ANNULATED INDOLES;

ALKYLATION; CATALYST ACTIVITY; PALLADIUM; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

NITROGEN;

ARYL IODIDE; AZAINDOLE DERIVATIVE; BROMOALKYL AZOLE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; IODINE DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; NORBORNENE DERIVATIVE; PALLADIUM; PYRAZOLE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKYLATION; ANNULATION REACTION; ARTICLE; ARYLATION; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE;

ALKYLATION; CATALYSIS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN; PALLADIUM;

EID: 41149168872     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo702052b     Document Type: Article

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