Catalyst-Driven Scaffold Diversity: Selective Synthesis of Spirocycles, Carbazoles and Quinolines from Indolyl Ynones

John T. R. Liddon, Michael J. James, Aimee K. Clarke, Peter O'brien, Richard J. K. Taylor, William P. Unsworth

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Abstract

Medicinally relevant spirocyclic indolenines, carbazoles and quinolines can each be directly synthesised selectively from common indolyl ynone starting materials by catalyst variation. The high yielding, divergent reactions all proceed by an initial dearomatising spirocyclisation reaction to generate an intermediate vinyl–metal species, which then rearranges selectively by careful choice of catalyst and reaction conditions.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8777-8780
Number of pages4
JournalChemistry - A European Journal
Volume22
Issue number26
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Apr 2016

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