Sodium Hydroxide → HCID 22561761, compound

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Reaction Steps

4-(4,4,5,5-Tetramethyl-[1,3,2]dioxaborolan-2-yl)-1H-indole 6b (1.22 g, 5 mmol) was dissolved in 20 ml of tetrahydrofuran under stirring, and added with 1-bromo-2,3-difluoro-benzene (0.97 g, 5 mmol), tetrakis (triphenylphosphine)palladium (0.17 g, 0.15 mmol) and sodium hydroxide solution (7 ml, 2 mol/L) under an argon atmosphere. Upon completion of the addition, the reaction system was stirred at 75° C. in an oil bath overnight. After thin lay chromatography showed the disappearance of starting materials, the reaction mixture was naturally cooled down to room temperature and extracted with ethyl acetate (20 ml×3). The combined organic extracts were washed with saturated brine (10 ml), dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, filtered to remove the drying agent and concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography to obtain 4-(2,3-difluoro-phenyl)-1H-indole 6c (800 mg, yield 70%) as a white solid.

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