Molecules (Jul 2024)

Palladium-Catalyzed Tsuji–Trost-Type Reaction of 3-Indolylmethylacetates with O, and S Soft Nucleophiles

  • Antonia Iazzetti,
  • Antonio Arcadi,
  • Marco Chiarini,
  • Giancarlo Fabrizi,
  • Antonella Goggiamani,
  • Federico Marrone,
  • Andrea Serraiocco,
  • Roberta Zoppoli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29143434
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 14
p. 3434

Abstract

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The chemical valorization of widespread molecules in renewable sources is a field of research widely investigated in the last decades. In this context, we envisaged that indole-3-carbinol, present in different Cruciferae plants, could be a readily available building block for the synthesis of various classes of indoles through a palladium-catalyzed Tsuji–Trost-type reaction with O and S soft nucleophiles. The regiochemical outcome of this high-yielding functionalization shows that the nucleophilic substitution occurs only at the benzylic position. Interestingly, with this protocol, the sulfonyl unit could be appended to the indole nucleus, providing convenient access to new classes of molecules with potential bioactivity.

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