Water → HCID 66953983, compound

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Reaction Steps

Potassium tert-butoxide (0.085 g, 0.8 mmol) was added to a suspension of 6-bromoindolin-2-one (preparation 1, 3.00 g, 14.2 mmol) in dimethylsulphoxide (7 mL) and, after stirring for 10 minutes at room temperature, the mixture was heated to 40-45° C. and methyl acrylate (4.00 mL, 44.4 mmol) was added dropwise over 70 minutes. After the addition, the mixture was stirred for 1 hour and then further potassium tert-butoxide (3.82 g, 34.0 mmol) was added portionwise over 30 minutes keeping the temperature below 50° C. The mixture was then heated to 100° C. and stirred for 1.5 hours. Water (45 mL) was added and heating was continued at 85° C. for 4 hours and then the mixture was left to cool overnight. The resultant precipitate was filtered and the solid washed with water and hexanes to give the crude product. Recrystallization from ethyl alcohol gave the title compound (1.95 g, 42%) as a white solid.

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