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Extended Multicomponent Reactions with Indole Aldehydes: Access to Unprecedented Polyheterocyclic Scaffolds, Ligands of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor

Ghashghaei, Ouldouz; Pedrola, Marina; Seghetti, Francesca; Martin, Victor V.; Zavarce, Ricardo; Babiak, Michal; Novacek, Jiri; Hartung, Frederick; Rolfes, Katharina M.; Haarmann-Stemmann, Thomas; Lavilla, Rodolfo

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
2020
VL / 60 - BP / 2603 - EP / 2608
abstract
The participation of reactants undergoing a polarity inversion along a multicomponent reaction allows the continuation of the transformation with productive domino processes. Thus, indole aldehydes in Groebke-Blackburn-Bienayme reactions lead to an initial adduct which spontaneously triggers a series of events leading to the discovery of novel reaction pathways together with direct access to a variety of linked, fused, and bridged polyheterocyclic scaffolds. Indole 3- and 4-carbaldehydes with suitable isocyanides and aminoazines afford fused adducts through oxidative Pictet-Spengler processes, whereas indole 2-carbaldehyde yields linked indolocarbazoles under mild conditions, and a bridged macrocycle at high temperature. These novel structures are potent activators of the human aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling pathway.

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