N-(2-aminoethyl)acetamide → N-[2-(4,5-dihydro-8-methoxy-1H-benz[g]indol-1-yl)ethyl]-acetamide

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N-Acetylethylenediamine (14.5 g) was dissolved in 250 ml of methylene chloride under argon, treated in succession with 250 g of molecular sieve 4 Å and a solution of 28.1 g of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-7-methoxy-1-oxo-2-naphthaleneacetaldehyde in 190 ml of methylene chloride and refluxed for 21 hours while stirring. The reaction mixture was cooled, filtered over a Celite® pad and the filtrate was freed from solvent. The crude product, 35.3 g of brown, amorphous material, was chromatographed on 600 g of silica gel with ethyl acetate as the eluent. There were obtained 29.6 g (81%) of N-[2-(4,5-dihydro-8-methoxy-1H-benzo[g]indol-1-yl)-ethyl]acetamide which was processed without further purification.

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