Ethylenediamine → 5-((2-Aminoethyl)amino)-6-fluoro-3-(1H-pyrrol-2-YL)benzo(CD)indol-2(1H)-one

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To a suspension of (Z)-5-fluoro-4-[1-iodo-3-oxo-3-(1H-pyrrol-2-yl)-propenyl]-1,3-dihydro-indol-2-one (from Example 8 above) (1.58 g, 4.0 mmol) in ethylenediamine (Aldrich, 70 mL) was added NaH (Aldrich, 95%, 1.0 g, 40 mmol) in small portions at room temperature. After stirring at room temperature for 30 minutes, the reaction mixture was heated to 120° C. for 1.5 hours. The reaction was quenched by pouring the reaction mixture into an ice-cold saturated aqueous ammonium chloride solution (200 mL) and extracted with ethyl acetate (3×150 mL). The combined organic extracts were successively washed with water (100 mL) and brine (100 mL), dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated in vacuo to give crude 5-(2-amino-ethylamino)-6-fluoro-3-(1H-pyrrol-2-yl)-1H-benzo[cd]indol-2-one as a brown solid. (Yield 1.1 g, 88.7%).

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