Development and Application of Indole-2,3-epoxide Surrogates

C3-Nucleophilic substitution of indoles has been limited because the transformation requires an umpolung of the C3 position of indoles. Among the indole derivatives, indole-2,3-epoxides could be potentially be used as C3-electrophilic reagents due to the electrophilic nature of the C2 and C3 positions. However, their use as C3 electrophilic reagents has not been possible so far due to their instability.