Potassium Nitrate → 5-Nitro-indan-2-ylamine hydrochloride

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To 2-aminoindane hydrochloride (19.11 g, 0.112 mol) at 0° C. was added sulfuric acid (60 ml) followed by potassium nitrate (11.84 g, 0.117 mol). The mixture was allowed to warm to room temperature, stirred for an additional 2 hr, then dumped onto ice/50% NaOH (500 ml total). The mixture was extracted with ether (3×20 ml) and the combined extracts were washed with water, dried over magnesium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated to an oil which was converted to the hydrochloride salt. Recrystallization from isopropanol/methanol afforded 5-nitro-2-aminoindane hydrochloride: (14.58 g, 60%); m.p. >300° C.

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