In situ anionic shielding for regioselective metalation: Directed peri and iterative metalation routes to polyfunctionalized 7-azaindoles

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2722-2726

  Schneider, Cédric ^a   David, Emilie ^a   Toutov, Anton A ^a   Snieckus, Victor ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

heterocycles; metalation; regioselectivity; structure elucidation; synthetic methods

Indexed keywords

AZAINDOLES; DIRECTED ORTHO METALATION; HETEROCYCLES; HETEROCYCLIC SYSTEMS; IN-SITU; METALATIONS; REGIO-SELECTIVE; REGIOSELECTIVE METALATION; STRUCTURE ELUCIDATION; SUZUKI COUPLINGS; SYNTHETIC METHODS; TETRAMETHYLETHYLENEDIAMINE; TRIMETHYLSILYL;

CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY;

REGIOSELECTIVITY;

EID: 84858028779     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: 15213773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201108016     Document Type: Article

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