Stereoselective double friedel-crafts alkylation of indoles with divinyl ketones

Organic Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1175-1178

  Silvanus, Andrew C ^a   Heffernan, Stephen J ^a   Liptrot, David J ^a   Kociok Köhn, Gabriele ^a   Andrews, Benjamin I ^b   Carbery, David R ^a  

^a University of Bath Claverton Down   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOLE DERIVATIVE; KETONE;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; STEREOISOMERISM; SYNTHESIS;

ALKYLATION; CATALYSIS; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; CYCLIZATION; INDOLES; KETONES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 64349087238     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol900014a     Document Type: Article

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