title: Asymmetric Friedel-Crafts addition of indoles to N-sulfonyl aldimines: a simple approach to optically active 3-indolyl-methanamine derivatives.
abstract: [reaction: see text] The enantioselective copper(II)-catalyzed Friedel-Crafts addition of indoles to N-sulfonyl aldimines was developed using chiral bisoxazoline as ligands, and high enantioselectivities (up to 96% ee) were achieved.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory and Institute of Elemento-organic Chemistry, Nankai University Tianjin 300071, China.
authors.forename: Yi-Xia
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Jian-Hua
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Hai-Feng
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Duan
authors.forename: Li-Xin
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Qi-Lin
authors.initials: QL
authors.lastname: Zhou