Thiocyanation of indoles

Yasumitsu Tamura, Sundo Kwon, Moon Woo Chun, Masazumi Ikeda

Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry · 1978 · 17 citations · 4 references

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Abstract

Abstract Treatment of indole, 2‐phenylindole, 2‐methylindole, and ethyl indole‐2‐carboxylate with thiocyanogen in acetic acid at 0° afforded the corresponding 3‐thiocyanatoindoles in quantitative yields, whereas similar treatment of 3‐methyl‐2‐phenylindoles and 2,3‐diphenylindoles gave the corresponding 6‐thiocyanatoindoles in high yields.

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