Ren-Xiao Liang, Ke Wang, Ling-Jie Song, Wei-Jian Sheng and Yi-Xia Jia
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 13959-13967
DOI:
10.1039/C9RA02569C,
Paper
An efficient palladium-catalyzed intramolecular deacetylative dearomatization reaction of 3-acetoxyindoles has been developed. A range of tetracyclic indolin-3-ones bearing C2-quaternary stereocenters are achieved in good yields, showing a wide substrate scope for this reaction. A preliminary enantioselective reaction is established to furnish the product in 63% ee by using (R,R,R)-phosphoramide-PE as a chiral ligand.