title: Recent Advances in the Synthesis of Indanes and Indenes.
abstract: Indanes and indenes are among the most important carbocycles. Many indane and indene derivatives have shown important pharmacological activities, and the indane and indene nuclei are structural motifs present in several natural products of biological relevance. In spite of their importance, only a few reviews on their preparation methods have appeared so far in the literature, the most recent ones being published about ten years ago. The present Review is aimed at filling this gap, presenting some of the most important and innovative approaches to indanes and indenes that have been published in the course of the last ten years (coverage: from 2005 to May, 2015).
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Industrial and Synthetic Organic Chemistry (LISOC), Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci, 12/C, 87036, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy. bartolo.gabriele@unical.it.
authors.forename: Bartolo
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4582-1489
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gabriele
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Industrial and Synthetic Organic Chemistry (LISOC), Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci, 12/C, 87036, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy.
authors.forename: Raffaella
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mancuso
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Industrial and Synthetic Organic Chemistry (LISOC), Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, University of Calabria, Via Pietro Bucci, 12/C, 87036, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy.
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Veltri
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D007189:Indans / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D007192:Indenes / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D015394:Molecular Structure; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D007189:Indans; D007192:Indenes
keywords: carbocyclization; indanes; indenes; reaction mechanisms; synthetic methods