Jing-Jing Pi, Xiao-Yu Lu, Jing‐Hui Liu
Apr 17, 2018
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The Journal of organic chemistry
Abstract
A survey of diversely substituted 2-arylbenzoic acids were synthesized and tested for use as proton shuttle in the direct arylation of indoles with bromobenzenes. It was found that 3-ethoxy-2-phenylbenzoic acid gives superior yield and selectivity for this class of substrates.