Water → Ethyl 3-butyl-1-methyl-1H-indole-5-carboxylate

HRID 349002

Reaction equation

[CH2:1]([C:5]1[C:13]2[C:8](=[CH:9][CH:10]=[C:11]([C:14]([O:16][CH2:17][CH3:18])=[O:15])[CH:12]=2)[NH:7][CH:6]=1)[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH3:4].[CH3:19]C(C)([O-])C.[K+].IC.O>CS(C)=O>[CH2:1]([C:5]1[C:13]2[C:8](=[CH:9][CH:10]=[C:11]([C:14]([O:16][CH2:17][CH3:18])=[O:15])[CH:12]=2)[N:7]([CH3:19])[CH:6]=1)[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH3:4]

Participants

Conditions

Temperature: 50 °C

Procedure

To a mixture of ethyl 3-butyl-1H-indole-5-carboxylate (0.6 g) in methylsulfoxide (10 mL) was added potassium t-butoxide (0.29 g) and iodomethane (2.0 mL). The mixture was stirred at 50° C. for 18H, at which time the mixture was pored into water (50 mL). The solution was extracted with ethyl acetate and the organic extracts washed three times with brine, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and concentrated under reduced pressure. Column chromatography on silica gel (100 mL) using 5% ethyl acetate in hexanes as eluent to give 0.294 g of the title compound: 1H NMR (CDCl3) δ 0.953, 1.44, 1.69, 2.77, 3.76, 4.40, 6.87, 7.26, 7.91, 8.35.

Workup

extractionThe solution was extracted with ethyl acetate
washthe organic extracts washed three times with brine
dry with materialdried over anhydrous sodium sulfate
concentrationconcentrated under reduced pressure

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-aa76c3f36433495780bceeda6063faa4
Source dataset: uspto-grants-2007_02
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US07176242B2

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