Dong Huijun, Shen Meihua, Redford Joanne E, Stokes Benjamin J, Pumphrey Ashley L, Driver Tom G
Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7061, USA.
Org Lett. 2007 Dec 6;9(25):5191-4. doi: 10.1021/ol702262f. Epub 2007 Nov 10.
A range of 2,5-disubstituted and 2,4,5-trisubstituted pyrroles can be synthesized from dienyl azides at room temperature using catalytic amounts of ZnI2 or Rh2(O2CC3F7)4.