Efficient palladium-catalyzed synthesis of substituted indoles employing a new (silanyloxyphenyl)phosphine ligand

The new and easily prepared OTips-DalPhos ligand (L1) offers broad substrate scope at relatively low loadings in the palladium-catalyzed C-N cross-coupling/cyclization of o-alkynylhalo(hetero)arenes with primary amines, affording indoles and related heterocyclic derivatives in high yield.