A new bismuth nitrate-catalyzed electrophilic substitution of indoles with carbonyl compounds under solvent-free conditions

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 3678-3682

  Iglesias, Laura ^a   Aguilar, Calista ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Debasish ^a   Banik, Bimal K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bismuth nitrate; carbonyl compounds; indole; solvent free reactions

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH NITRATE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; ELECTROPHILE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; METHANE; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ONE POT SYNTHESIS; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 78149455053     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910903531631     Document Type: Article

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