Hydrochloric Acid → HCID 178469838, compound

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Reaction Steps

A suspension of 2 aminoindole-3-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (2.04 g, 10.0 mmol), cyanamide (534 mg, 12.7 mmol), and concentrated hydrochloric acid (1 mL) in dioxane (91 mL), are heated under reflux for 48 hr. After the reaction mixture has cooled to 25 C. it is filtered and the solids washed well with dry diethyl ether, and then air dried to give 2-guanidinoindole-3-carboxylic acid ethyl ester hydrochloride (1.08 g, 38%) 2-guanidinoindole-3-carboxylic acid ethyl ester hydrochloride as an off-white solid, mp >250 C.

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