Hydrochloric Acid → 4-fluoro-2-methyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-indole

HRID 2278522Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 2278522 reaction equation
Cl.C(O[C@H](C)C([N:13]1[C:21]2[C:16](=[C:17]([F:22])[CH:18]=[CH:19][CH:20]=2)[CH2:15][CH:14]1[CH3:23])=O)C1C=CC=CC=1>C(O)C>[F:22][C:17]1[CH:18]=[CH:19][CH:20]=[C:21]2[C:16]=1[CH2:15][CH:14]([CH3:23])[NH:13]2

Participants

4

Procedure

8.2 ml of concentrated hydrochloric acid are added to a solution of 1.69 g of (R)-2-benzyloxy-1-(4-fluoro-2-methyl-2,3-dihydroindol-1-yl)propan-1-one diastereoisomer (B) in 200 ml of absolute ethanol. The reaction mixture is refluxed with stirring for 40 hours and is then cooled to ambient temperature and concentrated to dryness under reduced pressure. The residue is taken up in 200 ml of water, alkalinized with concentrated sodium hydroxide to pH 14, and the mixture is then extracted with 3×200 ml of dichloromethane. The organic phases are combined, washed with water, dried over magnesium sulfate, filtered, and then concentrated to dryness under reduced pressure. The residue is purified by chromatography on a 70 g cartridge of 15-40 μm silica, elution being carried out with pure cyclohexane and then with a 70/30 cyclohexane/dichloromethane mixture, at a flow rate of 50 ml/min. 0.56 g of (−)-4-fluoro-2-methylindoline is thus obtained in the form of a very pale yellow oil, the characteristics of which are the following:

Workup

  1. temperatureThe reaction mixture is refluxed
  2. concentrationconcentrated to dryness under reduced pressure
  3. extractionthe mixture is then extracted with 3×200 ml of dichloromethane
  4. washwashed with water
  5. dry with materialdried over magnesium sulfate
  6. filtrationfiltered
  7. concentrationconcentrated to dryness under reduced pressure
  8. customThe residue is purified by chromatography on a 70 g cartridge of 15-40 μm silica, elution

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-bfa3dc0ac57c415d98dc7f1675ae36f5
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2015_09
Patent number
US09133168B2

Reaction notes

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