Cross-dehydrogenative couplings between indoles and β-keto esters: Ligand-assisted ligand tautomerization and dehydrogenation via a proton-assisted electron transfer to Pd(II)

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 136, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6453-6462

  Leskinen, Mikko V ^a   Madarász, Ádám ^b   Yip, Kai Tai ^a   Vuorinen, Aini ^a   Pápai, Imre ^b   Neuvonen, Antti J ^a   Pihko, Petri M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDROGENATION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; ISOTOPES; PALLADIUM COMPOUNDS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PROTONS;

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; COORDINATION MODES; ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRON TRANSFER MECHANISMS; ELECTRON-RICH ARENES; HYBRID FUNCTIONAL; KINETIC ISOTOPE EFFECTS;

LIGANDS;

ESTER DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; LIGAND; PALLADIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; DEHYDROGENATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TAUTOMERIZATION;

EID: 84899767820     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja501681y     Document Type: Article

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