Water → 3-Phenyl-1-(p-toluenesulfonyl)indole-2-carboxylic acid

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To a stirred solution of 2.55 g of compound J in 10 cc of methylene chloride was added 2.20 g of trichloroacetic acid under ice-cooling and the mixture was stirred for 16 hours. Water was added to the reaction mixture, the desired compound was extracted with ethyl acetate. The extract was dried over magnesium sulfate and distilled to remove the solvent. The crude product thus obtained was purified by a silica gel column chromatography (eluent: ethyl acetate/hexane=3/7) to obtain 2.10 g of 3-phenyl-1-(p-toluenesulfonyl)indole-2-carboxylic acid. Yield: 94.1%.

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