Indoles copper catalyzed synthesis

Scheme 7 Copper-Catalyzed Synthesis of Complex Indoles via Amination...

Scheme 2.93 Copper-catalyzed synthesis of indoles from 2-iodoanilines.

Transition metal catalysis on solid supports can also be applied to indole formation, as shown by Dai and coworkers [41]. These authors reported a palladium- or copper-catalyzed procedure for the generation of a small indole library (Scheme 7.23), representing the first example of a solid-phase synthesis of 5-arylsulfamoyl-substituted indole derivatives. The most crucial step was the cydization of the key polymer-bound sulfonamide intermediates. Whereas the best results for the copper-mediated cydization were achieved using l-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP) as solvent, the palladium-catalyzed variant required the use of tetrahydrofuran in order to achieve comparable results. Both procedures afforded the desired indoles in good yields and excellent purities [41]. 

Transition-metal catalysis on solid supports can also be used for indole formation [43]. A palladium or copper-catalyzed procedure has been described for generation of a small indole library (Scheme 16.21) this is the first example of solid-phase synthesis of 5-arylsulfamoyl substituted indole derivatives. Whereas the best... 

Several investigators have uncovered additional copper-catalyzed indole syntheses from 2-ethynylanilines accompanied by in situ indole functionahzation. Yamamoto and colleagues reported the synthesis of Af-(alkoxybenzyl) indoles from the copper-catalyzed tandem reaction between 2-alkynyl-Af-arylideneanihnes and alcohols (Cul, toluene, 100°C, 55%-83%) [26], Ohno, Fujii, and coworkers employed a domino three-component copper-catalyzed process to prepare 2-(aminomethyl)indoles [27, 28] and... 

Ackermann engineered a copper-catalyzed process to achieve the A-arylation/hydroamination synthesis of indoles (Scheme 4, equation 1) [35], In similar fashion, A-acylindoles and NH-indoles were made available using A-unsubstituted amides and carbamates in place of anilines. In these latter reactions, a vicinal diamine ligand improved the cyclizations. Miura and Hirano reported a... 

The intramolecular amine-halogen copper-promoted indohzation was applied to the synthesis of more-complex indoles (Scheme , equations 1 ) [58-61]. Other examples in this category of copper-catalyzed amination are syntheses of the carbazole alkaloids murrayaquinone-A and ( )-bis-murrayaquinone-A [62], 3-aryl p-carbolin-l-ones [63, 64], carbazoles from donble C-N cyclization [65], pyrrolo[2,3-c]... 

Huang [80] and Liu [81] independently described a copper-catalyzed indole synthesis involving 2-iodoaniline and allenes (e.g., ethyl buta-2,3-dienoate) in a process that involved in situ formation of an aza-Michael addition adduct (vinylogous carbamate) and intramolecular Hecklike cyclization. Both groups used similar reaction... 

Scheme 9 Copper-Catalyzed Indole Synthesis from 2-Haloanilines and p-Dicarbonyl Compounds...

After copper and palladium, rhodium is the third most important transition metal for the synthesis of the indole ring. For a 2007 review on this reaction, see Patil and Paiil [1], Some early examples (Scheme 1) are Alper s rhodium reaction of 2-aryl-2/7-azirines to give 2-styiylindoles (equation 1) [2], Watanabe s Rh-catalyzed Fischer indole synthesis (equation 2) [3], Ucciani s 3-methylindole synthesis via the hydroformylation of o-nitrostyrene (equation 3) [4], and Burst s preparation of 3-acetyl-2-hydrox-yindoles from the Rh-catalyzed decomposition and carbenoid aromatic C-H bond insertion (equation 4) [5]. Narasaka extended Alper s 2-aryl-2//-azirine reaction to a Rh(II)-catalyzed synthesis of 2,3-disubstituted indoles [6], and both Cenini [7] and Alper [8] stretched the deoxygenation of o-nitrostyrenes to give indoles. Burst s Rh-catalyzed decomposition of a-diazo carbonyl compounds was used by Bauban [9] and Jha [10] in the synthesis of substituted oxindoles. 

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