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New reactivity patterns in activated indoles with 2-methyl substituents
Jones, Ashley W.,Wahyuningsih, Tutik Dwi,Pchalek, Karin,Kumar, Naresh,Black, David StC.
, p. 10490 - 10500 (2005)
The synthesis and reactive properties of two new 3-aryl-2-methyl-4,6- dimethoxyindoles are reported. These compounds show typical electrophilic substitution and addition reactions at C7, but not oxidative dimerisation because of the reactivity of the 2-methyl group. This methyl group can be effectively oxidised to a carbaldehyde by selenium dioxide, but formation of 7,7′-diindolylselenides also occurs.