Highly enantioselective zinc-catalyzed friedel-crafts alkylation of indoles with ethyl trifluoropyruvate

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 352, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 3174-3178

  Hui, Yonghai ^a   Chen, Weiliang ^a   Wang, Wentao ^a   Jiang, Jun ^a   Cai, Yunfei ^a   Lin, Lili ^a   Liu, Xiaohua ^a   Feng, Xiaoming ^a  

^a China   (China)

Author keywords

asymmetric catalysis; Friedel Crafts alkylation; indoles; N,N dioxides; zinc

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650392933     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 16154169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201000643     Document Type: Article

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