A rapid and efficient route has been developed for the synthesis of 9-methoxycarbonylindolo[3,2-a]carbazole derivatives. The key steps in this approach involved an aromatic amination and an oxidative biaryl coupling. Via the present route, indolo[3,2-a]carbazole derivatives are available in 3-4 steps based on commercially available starting materials.

A new procedure has been developed for the direct intermolecular C-H amination of simple hydrocarbons using shelf-stable nonafluorobutanesulfonyl azide in the presence of a dirhodium(II) tetracarboxylate catalyst under mild reaction conditions. Some mechanistic details are briefly discussed on the basis of control experiments.

A new Au(III)-catalyzed tandem amination-hydration reaction has been discovered, leading to the formation of α-(N-2-pyridonyl)ketones and heterocyclic analogues in good to excellent yields (14 examples, 48-90%). This reaction demonstrates the unusual use of a heterocyclic sp(2) nitrogen nucleophile in a gold-catalyzed 6-endo-dig cyclization. The tandem process allows rapid access to α-(N-2-pyri...

An efficient diastereoselective rhodium catalyzed synthesis of indolines possessing two contiguous tetrasubstituted carbon centers has been achieved with good to excellent yields using ortho-vinylanilines and iminocarbenes derived from N-sulfonyl-1,2,3-triazoles. The reaction affords excellent cisdiastereoselectivity through the initial formation of a N-ylide followed by intramolecular trapping...

Mixing a BTA ligand (in black), “sergeant” blue) and an achiral additive orange) affords the amination product in 75% e.e. even though only one for ca. 10 copper centers are present supramolecular helical catalyst.

N,N-Diaryl aminostilbenes and N,N-diaryl aminostyrenes are versatile compounds that have found exciting applications in the field of photochemistry; most of these compounds are patented and they are widely used as electro-photographic photoconductors and photoreceptors. Recent reports have demonstrated, for example, that these compounds can exhibit an amino-conjugation effect in their fluoresce...