Trifluoroethanol promoted formal nucleophilic substitution of indol-2-yl diaryl methanol for the synthesis of tetraarylmethanes

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,9797-9800 DOI: 10.1039/D4CC03420A, Communication Cuicui Nian, Run Yu, Zhengyu Han, Yang Bai, Jianhao Wang, Jianwei Sun, Hai Huang In this study, a series of tetraarylmethanes was successfully synthesized through the formal nucleophilic substitution reaction of indol-2-yl diaryl methanol catalyzed by Brønsted acid.