Ye AH, Li ZH, Ding TM, Ke H, Chen ZM. Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Electrophilic Thiocyanation of Indoles: Access to SCN-Containing Aryl-Indole Compounds.
Chem Asian J 2022;
17:e202200256. [PMID:
35384332 DOI:
10.1002/asia.202200256]
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Abstract
A phosphoric acid catalyzed electrophilic thiocyanation of 3-aryl indoles, which provides an efficient and modular approach to SCN-containing 3-aryl indole compounds, was developed for the first time. A variety of 2-SCN-3-aryl indoles were obtained with moderate to excellent yields. Furthermore, catalytic asymmetric manner of this reaction was also studied. Using chiral phosphoric acid as the catalyst, axially chiral SCN-containing 3-aryl indoles were obtained in moderate to good yields with moderate enantioselectivity.
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