Sodium Iodide → (Z)-5-fluoro-4-[1-iodo-3-oxo-3-(1H-pyrrol-2-yl)-propenyl]-1,3-dihydro-indol-2-one

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To a mixture of 2-tert-butoxycarbonyloxy-4-[3-(1-tert-butoxycarbonyl-1H-pyrrol-2-yl)-3-oxo-prop-1-ynyl]-5-fluoro-indole-1-carboxylic acid tert-butyl ester (from Example 4 above) (5.90 g, 10.4 mmol) and sodium iodide (Aldrich, 4.67 g, 31.4 mmol) was added TFA (Aldrich, 35 mL) slowly at room temperature. The reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 30 minutes, and then poured into a mixture of a saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate solution (400 mL) and ethyl acetate (500 mL). After separation, the aqueous layer was extracted with ethyl acetate (3×100 mL). The combined organic extracts were successively washed with water (200 mL) and brine (200 mL), dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated in vacuo. The crude product was triturated with ethyl acetate, filtered, and dried to give (Z)-5-fluoro-4-[1-iodo-3-oxo-3-(1H-pyrrol-2-yl)-propenyl]-1,3-dihydro-indol-2-one as a brown solid which was used in the next step without further purification. (Yield 3.86 g, 93.7%).

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