| Literature DB >> 21090654 |
Mark C Dobish1, Jeffrey N Johnston.
Abstract
A Brønsted base-catalyzed reaction of nitroalkanes with alkyl electrophiles provides indole heterocycles substituted at C3 bearing a sec-alkyl group with good enantioselectivity (up to 90% ee). Denitration by hydrogenolysis provides a product with equally high ee. An indolenine intermediate is implicated in the addition step, and surprisingly, water cosolvent was found to have a beneficial effect in this step, leading to a one-pot protocol for elimination/enantioselective addition using PBAM, a bis(amidine) chiral nonracemic base.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 21090654 PMCID: PMC3005818 DOI: 10.1021/ol1025712
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Org Lett ISSN: 1523-7052 Impact factor: 6.005