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Synthesis of methyl 5- and 6-nitroindole-2-carboxylates by nitration of indoline-2-carboxylic acid
Lavrenov, Sergei N.,Lakatosh, Sergei A.,Lysenkova, Ludmila N.,Korolev, Alexander M.,Preobrazhenskaya, Maria N.
, p. 320 - 322 (2002)
Indoline-2-carboxylic acid was transformed into 6-nitroindoline-2-carboxylic acid, the methyl ester of which was easily dehydrogenated by DDQ to methyl 6-nitroindole-2-carboxylate (total yield: 67%). Methyl 5-nitroindole-2-carboxylate was obtained by the nitration of methyl 1-acetylindoline-2-carboxylate acid followed by dehydrogenation with MnO2 in toluene in 40% total yield.