One-pot synthesis of symmetric and unsymmetric 1,1-bis-indolylmethanes via tandem iron-catalyzed C-H bond oxidation and C-O bond cleavage

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 74, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 8848-8851

  Guo, Xingwei ^a   Pan, Shiguang ^a   Liu, Jinhua ^a   Li, Zhiping ^a  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C-H BOND; C-O BOND CLEAVAGE; CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; ONE-POT SYNTHESIS;

ETHERS; OXIDATION;

CHEMICAL BONDS;

1,1 BISINDOLYLMETHANE; CARBON; HYDROGEN; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; IRON; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ONE POT SYNTHESIS; OXIDATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SYNTHESIS;

CATALYSIS; INDOLES; IRON; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 70449629308     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo902093p     Document Type: Article

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