Synfacts 2011(2): 0178-0178  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1259335
Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis and Stereoselective Reactions
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Copper-Catalyzed Synthesis of 3-Aminoindoles and Pyrroloindolines

Contributor(s): Mark Lautens, Stephen G. Newman
T. Benkovics, I. A. Guzei, T. P. Yoon*
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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Publication History

Publication Date:
19 January 2011 (online)

Significance

Indoles and pyrroloindolines are common motifs found in natural products and pharmaceuticals. The authors present an oxyamination of indoles using Davis oxaziridines to produce complex oxazolidine products, which can be readily transformed into 3-aminopyrroloindolines.