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A novel CAN-SiO2-mediated one-pot oxidation of 1-keto-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarbazoles to carbazoloquinones: Efficient syntheses of murrayaquinone A and koeniginequinone A
Chakraborty, Suchandra,Chattopadhyay, Gautam,Saha, Chandan
scheme or table, p. 331 - 338 (2011/06/19)
One-pot oxidations of substituted 1-keto-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarbazoles (1) to carbazole-1,4-quinones (2) are efficiently carried out by CAN-SiO 2-mediated reaction. This generalized protocol was successfully extended to the synthesis of two naturally occurring carbazoloquinones: murrayaquinone A (2b) and koeniginequinone A (2g). A plausible mechanism for this novel reaction involves formation of a 9-hydroxy-2,3,4,9-tetrahydro-1H- carbazole-1-one followed by rearrangement to 1-hydroxycarbazole derivatives, which are further oxidized by cerium (IV) to carbazoloquinones.
