Anionic n-fries rearrangement of n-alkyl-2-iodo anilides induced by lodine-magnesium exchange: Application for synthesis of strained 1,2,3-trisubstituted indoies

Organic Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1067-1070

  Ding, Fei ^a   Zhang, Yongda ^a   Qu, Bo ^a   Li, Guisheng ^a   Farina, Vittorio ^b   Lu, Bruce Z ^a   Senanayake, Chris H ^a  

^a BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^b JANSSEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANILIDE; ANION; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; IODINE; MAGNESIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

ANILIDES; ANIONS; INDOLES; IODINE; MAGNESIUM;

EID: 45549101636     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol7029905     Document Type: Article

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