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Accessing N-heteroarylated indoles and benzimidazoles from 2-alkynyl cyclohexadienimines and cyclohexadienones through metal-catalyzed tandem reactions
Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
E-mail: jtang@chem.ecnu.edu.cn
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Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
E-mail: rhfan@fudan.edu.cn
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Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 11775-11777
DOI:
10.1039/C2CC36113B
Received
23 Aug 2012,
Accepted
19 Oct 2012
First published online
22 Oct 2012
N-Indolyl or N-benzofuranyl indoles and benzimidazoles were prepared through metal-catalyzed tandem reactions between 2-alkynyl cyclohexadienimines or cyclohexadienones and 2-alkynylanilines or N1-benzylbenzene-1,2-diamine.