Palladium-catalyzed heteroannulation of [60]fullerene with anilides via C-H bond activation

Bo Zhu; Guan-Wu Wang

doi:10.1021/ol901675t

Palladium-catalyzed heteroannulation of [60]fullerene with anilides via C-H bond activation

Org Lett. 2009 Oct 1;11(19):4334-7. doi: 10.1021/ol901675t.

Authors

Bo Zhu¹, Guan-Wu Wang

Affiliation

¹ Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China.

PMID: 19731923
DOI: 10.1021/ol901675t

Abstract

The palladium-catalyzed reaction of [60]fullerene with a variety of readily available anilides, initiated by C-H bond activation and followed by cyclization, afforded [60]fulleroindolines in a highly regioselective manner. A plausible reaction mechanism was proposed.