Theoretical study of mechanism and selectivity of copper-catalyzed C-H bond amidation of indoles

Journal of Organic Chemistry

Volumn 76, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9246-9252

  Santoro, Stefano ^a   Liao, Rong Zhen ^a,b   Himo, Fahmi ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KOHLENFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDATION; C-H BOND; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; DISPERSION EFFECT; HIGHER-ENERGY BARRIERS; REACTION BARRIERS; REACTION MECHANISM; REDUCTIVE ELIMINATION; TECHNICAL DETAILS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CATALYSIS; COPPER;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

CARBON; COPPER ION; HYDROGEN; INDOLE DERIVATIVE;

AMIDATION; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DEPROTONATION; METALATION; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 81055144608     PISSN: 00223263     EISSN: 15206904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jo201447e     Document Type: Article

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