Dimethylformamide → 9-Aminocarbazole

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Into 250 ml of dimethylformamide was dissolved 25 g of carbazole. This solution was cooled with an ice-salt bath and 42 g of potassium hydroxide was added portionwise. To this mixture was added hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid. After two hours the mixture was stirred with water and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic extracts were washed with water and brine. After filtering the solvent was evaporated and the residue was eluted with 25% dichloromethane in hexane on a silica column to yield 9.5 g of a mixture of carbazole and 9H-carbazol-9-amine.

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