Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5275421 | Tetrahedron Letters | 2011 | 4 Pages |
A highly efficient and selective Friedel-Crafts amidoalkylation reaction of indoles with N-Ts aryl aldimines has been developed utilizing dimethyl hydrogen phosphite or diphenyl hydrogen phosphate as the organocatalysts, providing a facile and cost-effective process for synthesis of 3-indolyl methanamine derivatives in good to excellent yields. This transformation displays a broad substrate scope and wide functional-group tolerability, regardless of the electronic and steric properties of N-Ts aryl aldimines. Given that the developed catalytic Friedel-Crafts amidoalkylation reaction exhibits several salient features such as metal-free catalysis, high efficiency, low cost and mild reaction condition, this process might have practical applications in the synthesis of 3-indolyl methanamine derivatives.
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