Copper-Catalyzed N-Arylation of Indoles

Kalathingal   Nasreen   Hisana; Cheriya   Mukkolakkol Afsina   Abdulla; Gopinathan      Anilkumar
Abstract

Over the past decades, the N-arylation of indoles has gained an inevitable role in the fields of material science, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemical industries. They are the basic core skeleton of many natural products. Their synthesis by Ullmann-type C-N coupling reaction of indole derivatives with aryl halides through various catalytic protocols is well explored. Transition metal catalysis was the best method for synthesizing 1-aryl indoles, and copper catalysis is the leading among them. This review comprehends the recent developments in the copper-catalyzed C-N cross-coupling of indoles with aryl halides from 2010 to 2022.
Keywords: Copper, catalysis, N-Arylation, indole, aryl halides, ligand, nano-catalysis.
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Copper-Catalyzed N-Arylation of Indoles

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