Sc(OTf)3: A highly efficient and renewable catalyst for michael addition of indoles to nitroolefins in water

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 3259-3267

  Xie, Jianwei ^a   Zhu, Xinhai ^a   Huang, Manna ^a   Meng, Fei ^a   Wang, Man ^a   Wan, Yiqian ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Lewis acid; Michael addition; renewable catalyst; scandium trifluoromethanesulfonate; water

Indexed keywords

ALKENE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; SCANDIUM; SCANDIUM TRIFLUOROMETHANESULFONATE; TRIFLUOROMETHANESULFONIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MICHAEL ADDITION;

EID: 77957905079     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910903398676     Document Type: Article

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