Synthesis, Inhaltsverzeichnis Synthesis 2012; 44(24): 3811-3814DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1316813 paper © Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New YorkSynthesis of Indoles by Copper-Catalyzed Heteroannulation of o-Aminophenylboronic Acid Pinacol Esters with β-Keto Esters Ala Bunescu Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-SB-ISIC-LSPN, BCH 5304, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Fax: +41(21)6939740 eMail: jieping.zhu@epfl.ch , Qian Wang Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-SB-ISIC-LSPN, BCH 5304, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Fax: +41(21)6939740 eMail: jieping.zhu@epfl.ch , Jieping Zhu* Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL-SB-ISIC-LSPN, BCH 5304, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Fax: +41(21)6939740 eMail: jieping.zhu@epfl.ch› InstitutsangabenArtikel empfehlen Abstract Artikel einzeln kaufen Alle Artikel dieser Rubrik Abstract Copper-catalyzed coupling of o-aminophenylboronic acid pinacol esters with β-keto esters afforded, under mild base-free oxidative conditions, 2,3-disubstituted indoles featuring a key Chan–Lam-type carbon–carbon bond-forming reaction. 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