Vanadium-Catalyzed Regioselective Oxidative Coupling of 2-Hydroxycarbazoles
Author(s) -
Lei Liu,
Patrick J. Carroll,
Marisa C. Kozlowski
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
organic letters
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.94
H-Index - 239
eISSN - 1523-7060
pISSN - 1523-7052
DOI - 10.1021/ol503521b
Subject(s) - regioselectivity , chemistry , tetramer , vanadium , catalysis , oxidative coupling of methane , oxidative phosphorylation , coupling (piping) , selectivity , oxygen , combinatorial chemistry , dimer , photochemistry , organic chemistry , biochemistry , materials science , enzyme , metallurgy
The first regioselective oxidative coupling of 2-hydroxycarbazoles is described. With a vanadium catalyst and oxygen as the terminal oxidant, dimers with an ortho-ortho' coupling pattern were obtained with high selectivity. Further oxidation led to ortho'-ortho' coupling to generate a tetramer, which provided insight that the atropisomerization barriers of the unsymmetrical biaryl bonds are much lower than expected.
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