Herein,
we report the use of nontoxic, water-miscible Polarclean
as a safe dipolar aprotic solvent for the metal-catalyzed direct C2–H
arylation of indoles using Pd/C as a catalyst. The developed method
allows reaching excellent yields and regioselectivities, and it tolerates
various substituents on both indole and diaryliodonium salt scaffolds.
Polarclean is fully recoverable and reusable; it shows a very low
leaching of the metal catalyst, allowing its complete recovery and
reuse for at least six representative reaction runs.
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