Dichloromethane → 3-(5-Thiophen-3-yl-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine-3-ylmethyl)-phenol

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Into a Round bottom flask was added compound 14 (20.0 mg, 0.0000624 mol) and Methylene chloride (4.0 mL, 0.062 mol) at room temperature. Into the reaction mixture, was added 0.1 mL BBr3 (1.0M in). The reaction mixture was allowed to room temperature for 5 hours. TLC indicated the reaction was not complete. The reaction mixture was poured into water, extracted with EtOAc. The organic layer was washed with brine, dried over sodium sulfate, concentrated and purified with preparative TLC to give product 15 (5 mg).

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