Reverse Aromatic Cope Rearrangement of 2-Allyl-3-alkylideneindolines Driven by Olefination of 2-Allylindolin-3-ones: Synthesis of α-Allyl-3-indole Acetate Derivatives
- Tomomi Kawasaki
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- Yoshinori Nonaka
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- Kazuaki Watanabe
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- Atsuyo Ogawa
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- Kazuhiro Higuchi
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- Romi Terashima
- ,
- Kouhei Masuda
- , and
- Masanori Sakamoto
Abstract

The reverse aromatic Cope rearrangement of 2-allyl-3-alkylideneindolines obtained by Horner−Wadsworth−Emmons olefination of 2-allylindolin-3-ones was performed. When 2-allylindolin-3-ones were treated with phosphonium ylides in refluxing toluene, domino Wittig reaction and reverse aromatic Cope rearrangement took place to give α-allyl-3-indole acetate derivatives in good yields. The aromatization as a new driving force in the Cope rearrangement is preferable to the conjugation with the carbonyl and cyano groups and also to the alkyl substitution pattern, which are well-known driving forces.
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