Visible Light Promoted Synthesis of Indoles by Single Photosensitizer under Aerobic Conditions
Wen-Qiang Liu, Tao Lei, Zi-Qi Song, Xiu-Long Yang, Cheng-Juan Wu, Xin Jiang , Bin Chen , Chen-Ho Tung and Li-Zhu Wu*
*Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and
Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, The
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China,
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W.-Q. Liu, T. Lei, Z.-Q. Song, X.-L. Yang, C.-J. Wu, X. Jiang, B. Chen, C.-H. Tung, L.-Z. Wu, Org. Lett., 2017, 19, 3147-3150.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b01367
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Abstract
A radical cyclization enables the preparation of indoles and their derivatives from a wide variety of simple enamines only with catalytic amounts of an iridium(III) photosensitizer (PS) in DMSO solution under air atmosphere.
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