474267-09-9Relevant articles and documents
Synthesis of β- and γ-carbolines by the palladium/copper-catalyzed coupling and cyclization of terminal acetylenes
Zhang, Haiming,Larock, Richard C.
, p. 7048 - 7056 (2007/10/03)
A variety of 3-substituted β- and γ-carbolines have been synthesized from N-substituted 3-iodoindole-2-carboxaldehydes and 2-bromoindole-3-carboxaldehydes, respectively. The coupling of these aldehydes with various terminal acetylenes with PdCl2(PPh3)2/CuI as the catalyst readily affords the corresponding alkynylindole carboxaldehydes, which have subsequently been converted to the corresponding tert-butylimines and cyclized to β- and γ-carbolines by either copper-catalyzed or thermal processes.
