Yasuyuki Kita, Hiroaki Watanabe, Masahiro Egi, Toyokazu Saiki, Yuko Fukuoka and Hirofumi Tohma
A novel and efficient route involving an intramolecular cyclization of 3-(azidoethyl)indole derivatives using a hypervalent iodine(III) reagent has been developed for the synthesis of pyrroloiminoquinones.