A highly efficient thiourea catalyzed dehydrative nucleophilic substitution reaction of 3-substituted oxindoles with xanthydrols

  • Long Chen
  • , Feng Zhu
  • , Cui Hong Wang*
  • , Jian Zhou
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We report a highly efficient thiourea catalyzed dehydrative nucleophilic substitution reaction. The Schreiner's thiourea catalyst A1 catalyzed the alkylation of 3-substituted oxindoles with xanthydrols well, to furnish quaternary oxindoles in high yield. The ESI-MS analysis confirms the interaction of 3-substituted oxindole 1 with the thiourea, which might facilitate the oxindole-hydroxindole tautomerization for the alkylation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)19880-19884
Number of pages5
JournalRSC Advances
Volume3
Issue number43
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Nov 2013

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