Li Chen-Chen, Yang Shang-Dong
†State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry and ‡Cuiying Honors College, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China.
§State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China.
Org Lett. 2015 May 1;17(9):2142-5. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b00732. Epub 2015 Apr 16.
The first rhodium(I)-catalyzed difunctionalization of arylacrylamides to synthesize oxindoles is developed, and it does not require the assistance of an oxidant. This method provides an efficient approach to generate various useful functionalized oxindoles, some of which cannot be easily accessed by previous approaches.
