Abstract: | N,N-Dimethylacetamide dimethyl acetal reacted with 5(7)-substituted 2-(hydroxy-methyl)benzofurans to give N,N-dimethyl-2-(2-methylbenzofuran-3-yl)acetamides. Analogous reactions with 3-(hydroxymethyl)indole and 1-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-carbazole
afforded N,N-dimethyl-3-(3-indolyl)propionamide and N, N-dimethyl-2-(6-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarbazol-1-yl)acetamide, respectively.
Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 314–318, February, 2007. |