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2-Fluoroindoles are an important structural scaffold in many bioactive or therapeutic agents, but efficient constructions of 2-fluoroindole derivatives are very sparce. Here the authors report an efficient and general strategy for the construction of 2-fluoroindoles in which a wide variety of 2-fluoroindoles were accessed with high efficiency and chemoselectivity. 2-Fluoroindoles as an important structural scaffold are widely existing in many bioactive or therapeutic agents. Despite their potential usefulness, efficient constructions of 2-fluoroindole derivatives are very sparce. The development of straightforward synthetic approaches to access 2-fluoroindoles is highly desirable for studying their fundamental properties and applications. Herein, we report an efficient and general strategy for the construction of 2-fluoroindoles in which a wide variety of 2-fluoroindoles were accessed with high efficiency and chemoselectivity. Instead of starting from indole skeletons, our strategy constructs indole scaffolds alongside the incorporation of fluorine atom on C2 position in a formal [4+1] cyclization from readily accessible ortho-vinylanilines and difluorocarbene. In our protocol, commercially accessible halodifluoroalkylative reagents provide one carbon and one fluorine atom by cleaving one C-N tertiary bond and forming one C-N bond and one C-C double bond with ortho-vinylanilines. Downstream transformations on 2-fluoroindoles lead to various valuable bioactive molecules which demonstrated significant synthetic advantages over previous reports. And mechanistic studies suggest that the reaction undergoes a cascade difluorocarbene-trapping and intramolecular Michael addition reaction followed by Csp(3)-F bond cleavage.
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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
ISSN: 2041-1723
Year: 2021
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
1 7 . 6 9 4
JCR@2021
1 4 . 7 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: MULTIDISCIPLINARY;
ESI HC Threshold:186
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:1
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SCOPUS Cited Count: 36
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 3
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