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Synthesis 2008(9): 1404-1414
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1067005
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1067005
PAPER
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of N-sec- and N-tert-Alkylated Indoles
Further Information
Received
19 November 2007
Publication Date:
27 March 2008 (online)
Publication History
Publication Date:
27 March 2008 (online)
Abstract
A synthesis of N-substituted indoles by means of an epoxide-opening, nucleophilic aromatic substitution, and dehydration sequence is reported, which is capable of generating even N-tert alkyl substituted derivatives.
Key words
indoles - cyclizations - microwave heating
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