Methyl iodide → 6-Bromo-1-methyl-1H-indole

HRID 1716704Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1716704 reaction equation
[Br:1][C:2]1[CH:10]=[C:9]2[C:5]([CH:6]=[CH:7][NH:8]2)=[CH:4][CH:3]=1.[H-].[Na+].[CH3:13]I>CN(C=O)C>[Br:1][C:2]1[CH:10]=[C:9]2[C:5]([CH:6]=[CH:7][N:8]2[CH3:13])=[CH:4][CH:3]=1

Participants

5

Reactant 3

HCID 6328Methyl iodideHCID 24758Sodium hydrideHCID 6764936-Bromoindole

Product 1

HCID 155468546-Bromo-1-methyl-1H-indole

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 6228DimethylformamideSolvent

Procedure

To a solution of 6-bromo-1H-indole (2.5 g, 12.8 mmol) in DMF (10 ml) was slowly added NaH (354 mg, 14.0 mmol) at room temperature. The resulting mixture was stirred for 20 min at RT after which MeI (956 μl, 15.4 mmol) was added. The mixture was stirred for 1 hour at room temperature and then partitioned between DCM and brine. The combined organic layers were washed with brine, dried over Na2SO4, filtered, and concentrated to provide 6-Bromo-1-methyl-1H-indole CXLII in quantitative yield (2.7 g).

Workup

  1. customat room temperature
  2. additionwas added
  3. custompartitioned between DCM and brine
  4. washThe combined organic layers were washed with brine
  5. dry with materialdried over Na2SO4
  6. filtrationfiltered
  7. concentrationconcentrated

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-b38922370cf447c8b181b668f8ba4694
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2010_09
Patent number
US07803830B2

Reaction notes

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