S. Chatterjee, Pinaki Bhattacharjee, Jagadeesh Temburu
Dec 3, 2014
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Tetrahedron Letters
Abstract
Microwave promoted indium trichloride (10 mol %) catalyzed sp 3 C–H bond functionalization of 2-alkyl azaarenes 1 or 4 has been observed to construct C–C bond either with but-2-ene-1,4-diones 2 or ( E )-3-(2-oxo-2-phenylethylidene)indolin-2-one ( 6 ) giving access to 2-((quinolin-2-yl)methyl)butane-1,4-diones 3 , 2-((pyridin-2-yl)methyl)butane-1,4-diones 5 , or 3-(quinolin-2-yl)propan-2-yl)indolin-2-ones 7 in good yields using 1,4-dioxane as solvent.