53984-22-8Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Counterion Control of t-BuO-Mediated Single Electron Transfer to Nitrostilbenes to Construct N-Hydroxyindoles or Oxindoles
Driver, Tom G.,Sung, Siyoung,Wink, Donald J.,Zadrozny, Joseph M.,Zhao, Yingwei,Zhu, Haoran
supporting information, p. 19207 - 19213 (2021/08/09)
tert-Butoxide unlocks new reactivity patterns embedded in nitroarenes. Exposure of nitrostilbenes to sodium tert-butoxide was found to produce N-hydroxyindoles at room temperature without an additive. Changing the counterion to potassium changed the reaction outcome to yield solely oxindoles through an unprecedented dioxygen-transfer reaction followed by a 1,2-phenyl migration. Mechanistic experiments established that these reactions proceed via radical intermediates and suggest that counterion coordination controls whether an oxindole or N-hydroxyindole product is formed.
Pd-Catalyzed Reductive Cyclization of Nitroarenes with CO2 as the CO Source
Guan, Xinyu,Zhu, Haoran,Zhao, Yingwei,Driver, Tom G.
supporting information, p. 57 - 60 (2019/12/11)
A reductive amination process that constructs indoles, carbazoles or benzimidazoles from nitroarenes – irrespective of their electronic or steric nature – was developed that uses CO2 as the source of CO. The process is robust, tolerating common gaseous components of flue gas (H2S, SO2, NO and H2O) without adversely affecting the reductive cyclization.
Electrosynthesis of substituted 1H-indoles from o-nitrostyrenes
Du, Peng,Brosmer, Jonathan L.,Peters, Dennis G.
supporting information; experimental part, p. 4072 - 4075 (2011/10/04)
A novel procedure has been devised for the synthesis of derivatives of 1H-indole that is based on the direct, room-temperature electrochemical reduction of substituted o-nitrostyrenes at carbon cathodes in N,N-dimethylformamide containing tetramethylammonium tetrafluoroborate as supporting electrolyte and in the presence of a 10-fold molar excess of a proton donor (phenol or methyl 3-oxobutanoate).
