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ORGANIC LETTERS
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 367-370Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ol052255t
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Application of triethylene glycol with catalytic quantity of zinc chloride (ZnCl2/TEG) is described as a new and efficient reaction medium for a difficult Fischer synthesis, leading to sensitive indoles. Transformation of the 3-acetyl-1-methylthiocycloalka[c]pyridine phenylhydrazones and p-methoxyphenylhydrazones into the 2-(2-pyridyl)indoles and 5-methoxy-2-(2-pyridyl)indoles, which are the synthons in our total synthesis of the sempervirine-type alkaloids, is carried out under controlled microwave irradiation in dry zinc chloride solution (0.16 M) in TEG. This protocol produces indoles from acetophenone or cyclohexanone via their phenylhydrazones in excellent yields.
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