October 15, 2012

Organic-Chemistry.org - Heteroaromatic Construction: The Sato Synthesis of (-)-Herbindole

Troels Skrydstrup of Aarhus University devised (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2012, 51, 4681.

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Shu-Jiang Tu of Xuzhou University and Guigen Li of Texas Tech University condensed (Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 700. DOI: 10.1021/ol203166c) the enamine 22 with the aldehyde hydrate 23 to give the pyrrole 24, that should be readily aromatized to the corresponding indole.