Triethylamine → 1H-Indolamine

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Reaction Steps

Crude 2-methyl-2-pyrrolidin-1-yl-propan-1-ol (0.849 g, 5.94 mmol, 1 eq) was suspended in dry acetonitrile (30 mL) under Ar. Triethylamine (1.4 mL, 10 mmol, 1.7 eq) was added followed by the addition of toluenesulfonyl chloride (1.05 g, 5.50 mmol, 1.0 eq). The reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 1 hour. After 4 hours, the reaction was treated with 2-methyl-3-benzyloxycarbonyl-5-hydroxyindole (1.5 g; 5.5 mmol, 1 eq) and potassium carbonate (1.38 g, 10 mmol, 1.7 eq.). The reaction was heated to reflux and followed by TLC (ethyl acetate/methanol/triethylamine 87/10/3). After 23 hours, the reaction was loaded directly on silica gel and chromatographed (ethyl acetate/methanol/triethylamine 87/10/3). Impure product was further purified by reverse-phase prep-HPLC 10-100% Acetonitrile/water, 0.1% TFA. 0.040 g (5% yield) of the indole-amine was obtained as a brown semisolid: LC/MS (ESI+) 407 (M+1), Anal. (C24H30N2O2.TFA.1.0H2O) C, H, N.

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