TY - JOUR AU - Vanel, Rémi AU - Miannay, François-Alexandre AU - Vauthey, Eric AU - Lacour, Jerome TI - Direct coupling of carbenium ions with indoles and anilines for the synthesis of cationic π-conjugated dyes PY - 2014 JF - ChemComm JA - ChemComm SN - 1359-7345 VL - 50 IS - 81 SP - 12169 EP - 12172 L1 - http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2014/cc/c4cc05193a L2 - http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2014/cc/c4cc05193a L3 - http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2014/CC/C4CC05193A M3 - 10.1039/C4CC05193A UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C4CC05193A N2 - A C-C bond forming reaction occurs spontaneously between tris-(2,6-dimethoxyphenyl)carbenium ion and indoles / anilines. The carbocation acts both as electrophile and oxidant. Effective cationic π-conjugated dyes are formed resulting in a strong hyper- and bathochromism ID - 1430 ER -