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SUBMITTER: Le ST
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6272995 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Le Song Thi ST Yasuoka Chisa C Asahara Haruyasu H Nishiwaki Nagatoshi N
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20160625 7
A metal-free, mild and efficient method for the synthesis of 2-methylquinolines was successfully developed by condensation of anilines with vinyl ethers in the presence of catalytic amount of iodine. Modification of both pyridine and benzene moieties was easily achieved by changing only the vinyl ether and aniline. In this reaction, the iodine species was revealed to show dual behavior; molecular iodine serves as an oxidant, while its reduced form, hydrogen iodide, activates the vinyl ether. The ...[more]