Mitamura Takenori, Iwata Kimiyo, Ogawa Akiya
Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Gakuen-cho 1-1, Nakaku, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan.
Org Lett. 2009 Aug 6;11(15):3422-4. doi: 10.1021/ol901267h.
Upon treatment with (PhTe)(2) under visible-light irradiation, o-ethynylaryl isocyanides underwent intramolecular radical cyclization with introduction of telluro groups, affording the corresponding bistellurated quinolines.