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Base-Promoted SNAr Reactions of Fluoro- and Chloroarenes as a Route to N-Aryl Indoles and Carbazoles.

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (2019-03-27)
Muhammad Asif Iqbal, Hina Mehmood, Jiaying Lv, Ruimao Hua
ABSTRACT

KOH/DMSO-promoted C-N bond formation via nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr) between chloroarenes or fluoroarenes with indoles and carbazole under transition metal-free conditions affording the corresponding N-arylated indoles and carbazoles has been developed.