Electrophilic Substitution Reactions of Indoles with Carbonyl Compounds Using Ceric Ammonium Nitrate: A Novel and Efficient Method for the Synthesis of Di- and Tri-Indolylmethanes 1 †

Part 11 in the series ‘Studies on Novel Synthetic Methodologies’, for Part 10 see Ravindranath N. , Ramesh C. , and Das B. ; Synlett, 2001 1777. IICT Communication No. 4667.

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