Selectively Substituted Thiophenes and Indoles by a Tandem Palladium-Catalyzed Multicomponent Reaction

Koichi Mitsudo, Praew Thansandote, Thorsten Wilhelm, Brian Mariampillai, Mark Lautens

Organic Letters · 2006 · 89 citations · 16 references

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Abstract

A variety of di- and trisubstituted thiophenes were synthesized by a one-pot palladium-catalyzed ortho-alkylation sequence terminated by either Heck or C-H coupling. Initial results toward the functionalization of indoles are also presented.

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