Alkyne Hydroheteroarylation: Enantioselective Coupling of Indoles and Alkynes via Rh-Hydride Catalysis.

Faben A CruzYamin ZhuQuentin D TercenioZengming ShenVy M Dong

Published 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.

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