Citation: Lixin Duan, Xin He, Haibo Zhu, Caiyun Fang, Tao Tu. Cutting and replacing a single carbon: Tryptamine-directed photochemistry edits the indole skeleton[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2026, 37(12): 113008. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2026.113008 shu

Cutting and replacing a single carbon: Tryptamine-directed photochemistry edits the indole skeleton

Lixin Duan ^{a, c} ,
Xin He ^a ,
Haibo Zhu ^b ,
Caiyun Fang ^{c, *,} ,
Tao Tu ^{a, b, c, d, *,}

a.
State Key Laboratory of High-efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan 750021, China
b.
Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, China
c.
Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
d.
Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Extreme Environment Functional Materials, Yiwu Research Institute of Fudan University, Yiwu 322000, China

fangcaiyun@fudan.edu.cn

taotu@fudan.edu.cn

Received Date: 9 May 2026
Revised Date: 19 May 2026
Accepted Date: 26 May 2026
Available Online: 27 May 2026

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