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SUBMITTER: Kieffer ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3480223 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kieffer Madeleine E ME Chuang Kangway V KV Reisman Sarah E SE
Chemical science 20121101 11
An operationally simple, copper-catalyzed arylation of N-tosyltryptamines provides direct access to C3-aryl pyrroloindolines. A range of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing substituents is tolerated on both the indole backbone and the aryl electrophile. These reactions occur under ambient temperatures and with equimolar quantities of the coupling partners. ...[more]