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Ruthenium‐Catalyzed C−H Arylation of Benzoic Acids and Indole Carboxylic Acids with Aryl Halides
Author(s) -
Simonetti Marco,
Cannas Diego M.,
Panigrahi Adyasha,
Kujawa Szymon,
Kryjewski Michal,
Xie Pan,
Larrosa Igor
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201605068
Subject(s) - indole test , chemistry , catalysis , aryl , halide , benzoic acid , ruthenium , reactivity (psychology) , salt (chemistry) , combinatorial chemistry , organic chemistry , medicinal chemistry , alkyl , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Herein we report the first Ru‐catalyzed C−H arylation of benzoic acids with readily available aryl (pseudo)halides. The reaction, which does not require the use of silver salt additives, allows the arylation of previously challenging hindered benzoic acids and the use of generally unreactive ortho ‐substituted halorarenes. Furthermore, our new protocol can efficiently be applied to indole carboxylic acids, thus allowing access to C7‐, C6‐, C5‐ and C4‐arylated indole compounds, a departure from the classical enhanced reactivity of the C2 and C3 positions of indole.