Indoles from Simple Anilines and Alkynes: Palladium-Catalyzed C-H Activation Using Dioxygen as the Oxidant

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 48, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 4572-4576

  Jiao, Ning ^a,b   Shi, Zhuangzhi ^a   Zhang, Chun ^a   Li, Si ^a   Pan, Delin ^a   Ding, Shengtao ^a   Cui, Yuxin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Alkynes; C H activation; Indoles; Oxidation; Palladium

Indexed keywords

ALKYNES; C-H ACTIVATION; CATALYTIC CYCLES; DIOXYGENS; INDOLES; MONOSUBSTITUTED ANILINES;

ACETYLENE; ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ANILINE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; OXIDANTS; OXIDATION;

PALLADIUM;

ALKYNE; ANILINE; ANILINE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; OXIDIZING AGENT; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CYCLIZATION; SYNTHESIS;

ALKYNES; ANILINE COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; CYCLIZATION; INDOLES; OXIDANTS; OXYGEN; PALLADIUM;

EID: 70349777758     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200901484     Document Type: Article

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