Sodium Carbonate → 5-Nitro-3-phenyl-1H-indole

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A solution of 3-bromo-5-nitroindole from above (625 mg, 2.1 mmol), phenylboronic acid (381 mg, 3.13 mmol), triphenylphosphine (109.3 mg, 0.417 mmol) in dimethoxyethane (4.16 mL) was degassed. To this mixture 2N sodium carbonate (6.25 mL) was added, and reaction mixture was degassed again. To the reaction was added palladium (II) acetate (23.4 mg, 0.104 mmol), and the reaction was refluxed under dry nitrogen with stirring for 8 hours. The reaction mixture was then diluted with 1 M HCl (100 mL), and extracted with ethyl acetate (100 mL). The organic phase was washed with water (100 mL), and brine (100 mL). The organic phase was dried over MgSO4 and concentrated in vacuo. The crude product was purified by chromatography over silica gel (EtOAc/hexanes, 10/90) to afford 3-phenyl-5-nitroindole as an orange powder (45 mg, 9% yield).

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