Jian Zhou and colleagues at East China Normal University in Shanghai find a very straightforward method for the synthesis of oxindole, a very important subunit in many bioactive natural products and drugs.
OBC cover of Issue 17 shows the direct road that leads to the synthesis of this very useful product. It is free to access for 6 weeks from publication of the issue.
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A facile method for the synthesis of oxindole based quaternary α-aminonitriles via the Strecker reaction
Yun-Lin Liu, Feng Zhou, Jun-Jie Cao, Cong-Bin Ji, Miao Ding and Jian Zhou
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 3847-3850
