Alkyne Hydroheteroarylation: Enantioselective Coupling of Indoles and Alkynes via Rh-Hydride Catalysis.
Faben A CruzYamin ZhuQuentin D TercenioZengming ShenVy M DongPublished in: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2017)
We report an enantioselective coupling between alkynes and indoles. A Rh-hydride catalyst isomerizes alkynes to generate a metal-allyl species that can be trapped with both aromatic and heteroaromatic nucleophiles.