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SUBMITTER: Potavathri S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2954267 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20101001 41
The most direct method for synthesizing 2-arylindoles is oxidative coupling of an arene with an indole. We have shown that both the activity and regioselectivity of this cross-coupling reaction are correlated with the acidity of the medium. This insight has been applied to predict the best conditions for the oxidative cross-coupling of N-alkylindoles, an important class of substrates that has heretofore been incompatible with the harsh conditions required for oxidative cross-coupling. Both exper ...[more]