Palladium-Catalyzed Dearomative [4 + 2]-Cycloaddition toward Hydrocarbazoles
Soumen Pandit, Vinay Kumar Pandey, Amit Singh Adhikari, Suresh Kumar, Arvind Kumar Maurya, Ruchir Kant, Nilanjana Majumdar
Abstract
An efficient method for the construction of hydrocarbazoles bearing three continuous sterically hindered stereocenters, two quaternary and one tertiary, via a highly diastereoselective palladium-catalyzed [4 + 2]-cycloaddition/dearomatization of 3-nitroindoles has been developed. The cycloaddition of 3-nitroindoles occurs at ambient conditions with a 1,4-zwitterionic intermediate, in situ generated from γ-methylidene-δ-valerolactones. The further synthetic utility of this method is demonstrated by the multifaceted transformations possible from the products. The catalytic asymmetric aspect of this transformation has also been explored.