Potassium Hydroxide → tert-butyl 4-(5-chloro-1H-indol-3-yl)-5,6-dihydropyridine-1(2H)-carboxylate

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5-chloro-1H-indole (2.15 g; 13.90 mmol), tert-butyl 4-oxopiperidine-1-carboxylate (3.08 g; 15.29 mmol) and potassium hydroxide (3.67 g; 55.6 mmol) were added in MeOH (50 mL) and heated to reflux for 24 hours. The reaction mixture was cooled to room temperature and poured into ice water (70 mL). The reaction mixture was extracted with dichloromethane. The combined organic extracts were dried over magnesium sulphate and concentrated to give 4.52 g (98%) of tert-butyl 4-(5-chloro-1H-indol-3-yl)-5,6-dihydropyridine-1(2H)-carboxylate as a yellow solid.

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