Green oxidation of indoles using halide catalysis

Jun Xu; Lixin Liang; Haohao Zheng; Yonggui Robin Chi; Rongbiao Tong

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12768-4

Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Green oxidation of indoles using halide catalysis

Jun Xu,
Lixin Liang,
Haohao Zheng,
Yonggui Robin Chi,
Rongbiao Tong

Affiliations

Jun Xu: College of Pharmacy, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Lixin Liang: Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(HKUST)
Haohao Zheng: College of Pharmacy, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Yonggui Robin Chi: Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University(NTU)
Rongbiao Tong: Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(HKUST)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12768-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Indole oxidation represents a fundamental organic transformation delivering valuable nitrogen compounds. Here, the authors report a general halide catalysis protocol applied to three classes of oxidation reactions of indoles with oxone as a sustainable terminal oxidant.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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