Formaldehyde → 5-(5-Nitroindol-3-ylmethyl)-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxane4,6-dione

HRID 53143

Reaction equation

HRID 53143 reaction equation
[N+:1]([C:4]1[CH:5]=[C:6]2[C:10](=[CH:11][CH:12]=1)[NH:9][CH:8]=[CH:7]2)([O-:3])=[O:2].[CH3:13][C:14]1([CH3:22])[O:21][C:19](=[O:20])[CH2:18][C:16](=[O:17])[O:15]1.[CH2:23]=O>C(#N)C.N1CCC[C@H]1C(O)=O>[N+:1]([C:4]1[CH:5]=[C:6]2[C:10](=[CH:11][CH:12]=1)[NH:9][CH:8]=[C:7]2[CH2:23][CH:18]1[C:19](=[O:20])[O:21][C:14]([CH3:22])([CH3:13])[O:15][C:16]1=[O:17])([O-:3])=[O:2]

Participants

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Procedure

An adaption of the procedure of Flaugh1 was used. Thus, a solution of 5-nitroindole (50.0 g, 0.32 mol), Meldrum's acid (46.0 g, 0.32 mol), 37% aqueous formaldehyde (26.0 mL, 0.32 mol) and proline (1.8 g, 0.016 mol) in 200 mL of acetonitrile was stirred at room temperature for 18 h. The resulting thick yellow slurry was filtered and the filtercake was washed with acetonitrile, then acetone and finally with ether. This material was dried/in vacuo to give the title compound (80.0 g, 81%) as a bright yellow solid, mp 182° C. (dec). The mother liquor was concentrated and then diluted with H2O, and the resulting solid was collected, washed and dried as before to give a second crop of the product (7.0 g) as a darker yellow solid. Total yield=87.0 g (89%): IR (KBr) 3330, 1767, 1732 cm-1 ; 1H NMR (DMSO-d6, 200 MHz) δ11.64 (s, 1H), 8.63 (d, J=2.2 Hz, 1H), 7.96 (dd, J=9.0, 2.2 Hz, 1H), 7.49 (d, J=9.0 Hz, 1H), 7.33 (d, J=2.2 Hz, 1H), 4.84 (t, J=4.6 Hz, 1H), 3.45 (d, J=4.5 Hz, 2H), 1.78 (s, 3H), 1.55 (s, 3H). Anal. Calcd for C15H14N2O6 : C, 56.60; H, 4.43; N, 8.80. Found: C, 56.62; H, 4.41; N, 8.91.

Workup

  1. filtrationThe resulting thick yellow slurry was filtered
  2. washthe filtercake was washed with acetonitrile

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-ee9fddc37b7c426e95202c33d76ad144
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1997_04
Patent number
US05618816

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