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Research Progress on the Hydroamination of o-Alkynylanilines for the Synthesis of Axially Chiral Indoles

  • Jiasheng Wang ,
  • Zeshu Wang ,
  • Weimin He ,
  • Longwu Ye
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  • a College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanhua University, Hengyang, Hunan 421001
    b College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005
    c State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032
These authors contributed equally to this work.

Received date: 2024-01-12

  Revised date: 2024-02-23

  Online published: 2024-03-13

Supported by

National Natural Science Foundation of China(22125108); Science and Technology Innovation Program of Hunan Province(2023RC4004)

Abstract

Hydroamination of o-alkynylanilines is an important approach for the synthesis of indoles. On this basis, o-alkynylanilines bearing substituents with certain steric hindrance could undergo chiral transition-metal catalyzed or organocatalytic atroposelective 5-endo-dig cyclolization for the synthesis of axially chiral indoles. Classified by the types of chiral axes in the products of enantioselective hydroamination, the catalytic enantioselective methods for the preparation of axially chiral indoles containing C—N, C—C and N—N chiral axes are systematically introduced.

Cite this article

Jiasheng Wang , Zeshu Wang , Weimin He , Longwu Ye . Research Progress on the Hydroamination of o-Alkynylanilines for the Synthesis of Axially Chiral Indoles[J]. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2024 , 44(6) : 1786 -1792 . DOI: 10.6023/cjoc202401010

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