Acetic Acid → Indole-5-carboxaldehyde

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Raney nickel (6.7 g) was added to a solution of 5-cyanoindole (Aldrich, 10.0 g) and sodium hypophosphite (20.0 g) in a mixture of water (73 ml), glac. acetic acid (73 ml) and pyridine (145 ml) at 45° C. The resulting mixture was stirred at 45° C. for 2 hours, then cooled and filtered through Hyflo. The filtrate was diluted with water and extracted with ethyl acetate. The combined extracts were washed with water, 10% aqu. citric acid. IN aqu. HCl, water and brine, dried and evaporated in vacuo to give the desired product as a buff solid which was recrystallised from chloroform (7.5 g).

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