Pyrylium[2,3-b]indole salts

2-Ketoindoline and 1-methyl-2-ketoindoline condense with hydroxymethylene ketones in the presence of hydrogen chloride to give pyrylium[2,3-b]indole chlorides, which can be converted to 5-(3-oxindolyl)-²-pyrazolines by reaction with phenylhydrazine and to 5-(3-oxindolyl)-²-isoxazolines by reaction with hydroxylamine.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 8, pp. 1030–1032, August, 1972.