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SUBMITTER: O'Brien CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6097937 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of organic chemistry 20180706 16
The direct cyanomethylation of indoles at the 2- or 3-position was achieved via photoredox catalysis. The versatile nitrile synthon is introduced as a radical generated from bromoacetonitrile, a photocatalyst, and blue LED as a light source. The mechanism of the reaction is explored by determination of the Stern-Volmer quenching constants. By combining photophysical data and mass spectrometry to follow the catalyst decomposition, the catalyst ligands were tuned to enable synthetically useful yie ...[more]