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Application of ynamides in the synthesis of 2-amidoindoles
Karin Dooleweerdt1, Thomas Ruhland, Troels Skrydstrup
1Center for Insoluble Protein Structures (inSPIN), Department of Chemistry and the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Abstract:
A Pd-catalyzed, one-pot, two-step synthesis of 2-amidoindoles from ynamides and o-iodoanilines is reported. A key highlight of this sequence is that after the Sonogashira reaction, intramolecular cyclization to the indole occurs spontaneously without activation of the alkyne.
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