作者:Enrico Marelli、Martin Corpet、Yury Minenkov、Rifahath M. Neyyappadath、Alessandro Bismuto、Giulia Buccolini、Massimiliano Curcio、Luigi Cavallo、Steven P. Nolan
DOI:10.1021/acscatal.6b00040
日期:2016.5.6
A palladium N-heterocyclic carbene catalyzed methodology for the synthesis of substituted, N-unprotected indoles and azaindoles is reported. The protocol permits access to various, highly substituted members of these classes of compounds. Although two possible reaction pathways (deprotonative and Heck-like) can be proposed, control experiments, supported by computational studies, point toward a deprotonative mechanism being operative.