Synthesis of nitro- and aminoindoles

Optimal conditions are proposed for the direct nitration of 2,3-dimethylindoles containing methyl and methoxy groups in the benzene ring. In contrast to 5- and 6-methylindoles and 5- and 6-methoxyindoles, nitration of 7-methyl-and 7-methoxy-2,3-dimethylindoles proceeds differently under the same conditions. A series of previously unreported aminoindoles was obtained by reduction of the nitroindoles.Mordova State Pedagogical Institute, 430007 Saransk, Russia; e-mail:mgpi@si.moris.ru and M. V. Lomonosov State University, 119899 Moscow, Russia, e-mail:yumar@org.chem.msu.su. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 12, pp. 1630–1636, December, 1999.