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SUBMITTER: Vargas DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6376986 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20180706 31
Functionalized indoles are recurrent motifs in bioactive natural products and pharmaceuticals. While transition metal-catalyzed carbene transfer has provided an attractive route to afford C3-functionalized indoles, these protocols are viable only in the presence of N-protected indoles, owing to competition from the more facile N-H insertion reaction. Herein, a biocatalytic strategy for enabling the direct C-H functionalization of unprotected indoles is reported. Engineered variants of myoglobin ...[more]