Indole synthesis: a review and proposed classification

DF Taber, PK Tirunahari - Tetrahedron, 2011 - Elsevier
The indole alkaloids, ranging from lysergic acid to vincristine, have long inspired organic
synthesis chemists. Interest in develo** new methods for indole synthesis has burgeoned …

Copper-mediated coupling reactions and their applications in natural products and designed biomolecules synthesis

G Evano, N Blanchard, M Toumi - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
Natural product synthesis is a highly demanding field in constant need of efficient
transformations that allow either straightforward, scalable, and high-yielding preparation of …

The complementary competitors: palladium and copper in C–N cross-coupling reactions

IP Beletskaya, AV Cheprakov - Organometallics, 2012 - ACS Publications
The C–N cross-coupling chemistry intensely developed since the late 1990s has supplied
synthesists with an overwhelming number of methods to effectively combine carbon and …

Copper catalysis in the construction of indole and benzo [b] furan rings

S Cacchi, G Fabrizi, A Goggiamani - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
This perspective reports on some of the main copper-catalyzed routes to the construction of
the pyrrole and furan rings incorporated into the indole and benzo [b] furan systems …

Tandem reactions initiated by copper-catalyzed cross-coupling: a new strategy towards heterocycle synthesis

Y Liu, JP Wan - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Copper-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions which lead to the formation of C–N, C–O, C–S
and C–C bonds have been recognized as one of the most useful strategies in synthetic …

Synthesis of indoles: recent advances

DI Bugaenko, AV Karchava… - Russian Chemical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Published data of the last 10 years concerning the development of new and upgrading of
known approaches to indole synthesis are integrated and analyzed. Modern versions of the …

Multiple Roles of the Pyrimidyl Group in the Rhodium‐Catalyzed Regioselective Synthesis and Functionalization of Indole‐3‐carboxylic Acid Esters

H Jiang, S Gao, J Xu, X Wu, A Lin… - Advanced Synthesis & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A regioselective synthesis of indole‐3‐carboxylic acid esters from anilines and diazo
compounds has been realized by making use of the pyrimidyl group‐assisted rhodium …

Copper-catalyzed synthesis of multisubstituted indoles through tandem Ullmann-type C–N formation and cross-dehydrogenative coupling reactions

Y Li, J Peng, X Chen, B Mo, X Li, P Sun… - The Journal of Organic …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Multisubstituted indoles were synthesized via a one-pot tandem copper-catalyzed Ullmann-
type C–N bond formation/intramolecular cross-dehydrogenative coupling process at 130° C …

Formal aromaticity transfer for palladium-catalyzed coupling between phenols and pyrrolidines/indolines

Z Qiu, JS Li, CJ Li - Chemical Science, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We herein describe a palladium-catalyzed formal aromaticity transfer coupling reaction
between phenols and pyrrolidines or indolines to generate the corresponding N-cyclohexyl …

Copper Catalysts in the Synthesis of Five-membered N-polyheterocycles

N Kaur - Current Organic Synthesis, 2018 - benthamdirect.com
Background: Due to significant biological activity associated with N-, O-and S-heterocycles,
a number of reports for their synthesis have appeared in recent decades. Traditional …