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Readily available 3-substituted indoles undergo a one-pot iridium-catalyzed triborylation at the C2, C5, and C7 sites. 1H NMR analysis indicates borylation at C2 and C7 occurs first (no monoborylated product is observed), with the third borylation occurring as a separate, distinct step that is sterically directed to C5 by a combination of the substituent at C3 and the boronate at C7. The resulting tetrasubstituted indoles possess a substitution pattern that is cumbersome to prepare using existing methods.
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Eastabrook et al. (2015) studied this question.
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