A direct copper-catalyzed route to pyrrolo-fused heterocycles from boronic acids

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 564-569

  Beveridge, Ramsay E ^a,b   Gerstenberger, Brian S ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Azaindoles; Boronic acids; Catalysis; Copper; Fischer rearrangement

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; BORONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; COPPER; DI TERT BUTYL DIAZODICARBOXYLIC ACID; DICARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; ISOQUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; KETONE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; PYRROLE; PYRROLOPYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANNULATION REACTION; ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; CYCLOADDITION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FISCHER INDOLIZATION; ONE POT SYNTHESIS; RING OPENING;

EID: 84355161848     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: 18733581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2011.11.091     Document Type: Article

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