Indole derivatives 5-bromoindole reaction with

Pyridinium bromide perbromide efficiently brominates pyrroles already substituted by electron-withdrawing substituents and also gives a high yield of 3-bromoindole in its reaction with indole. In conjunction with sulfuryl chloride, it has been used in the synthesis of 3-bromo-2-chloro-, 2-bromo-3-chloro- and 2,3-dibromo-indole (81SC253). 3-Methylindole reacts with A-bromosuccinimide in acetic acid to give the 2-bromo derivative which reacts further with an excess of A-bromosuccinimide to yield 2,6-dibromo-3-methylindole (B-70MI30500, 72HC(25-2)127) whilst in aqueous or alcoholic media, 3-bromo-3-methylox-indole is produced (cf. Scheme 15). All of these reactions proceed via the 3-bromo-3A-indolium cation, but the course of the reaction depends not only upon the orientation or... 

Lithio compounds can also be obtained by exchange reactions with halo compounds, for example, the sodium salt of S-bromoindole can be converted to the S-lithio derivative by treatment with /-butyllithium, and this in turn allows synthesis of various S-substituted indoles. 

The amino-acid-derived imidazolidinones, so-called MacMillan catalysts, efficiently form iminium ions with a, 3-unsaturated aldehydes and catalyze a Friedel-Crafts-type Michael reaction. Based on this strategy, Hanes-sian and co-workers reported on a practical asymmetric synthesis of indole derivative (S)-(—)-14, which is a precursor of drug prototype (S)-(+)-15, a candidate for treatment of migraine headaches (Scheme 27.2). In this synthesis, nitrogen-containing aldehyde 11 was able to react with 5-bromoindole 10 in the presence of (/ ,/ )-MacMillan catalyst 12 to give the adduct 13 in quantitative yield with 92% ee. 

Such a reversible blocking of the 2-position by sulfenylation was of particular interest in the synthesis of bromo-derivatives of indolyl-3-propionic acid. Specific bromination or nitration of the benzene ring of an indole is normally difficult to achieve, since the pyrrole ring also will react with electrophilic reagents. As an example, 5-bromoindole-3-propionic acid has been prepared using this reversible protection, that is by bromination of the 2-sulfenylated compound and removal of the arylthio group by the two consecutive reactions with NBS and NaBKi (727). 

Preparation of bromoindoles by replacement of metallic substituents have included oxidation of indolylmagnesium bromide by p-nitrobenzoic acid to give 3-bromoindole (67BSF1294), thallation procedures (illustrated in Scheme 18 also applied to the synthesis of chloroindoles) [85H(23)3113 86H(24)3065 87CPB3146, 87H(26)2817 89H(29)1163], and the use of lithium derivatives. The thallation reactions provide access particularly to 4- and 7-bromoindoles. Quenching the protected 2-lithium derivative of indole with 1,2-dibromotetrachloroethane gave an 87% yield of 2-bromoindole (92JOC2495). 

Early syntheses of haloindoles involved direct reactions of indoles with chlorine, bromine, or iodine. In some cases, this approach was reasonably successful, but the instability of the resulting 3-haloindoles made product isolation and further chemistry difficult. For example, although attempted preparations of 3-chloro-, 3-bromo-, and 3-iodoindole were described in the early 1900 s [2], only recently have practical syntheses of these compounds and their N-protected derivatives become available. For example, 3-bromoindole (2) can be prepared in... 

Boronic acids derived from 3- and 5-substituted indoles are useful intermediates for palladium-catalyzed vinylation, arylation, and heteroarylation (Equation (47)) <92H(34)1395, 93TL2235>. As with the stannanes, a reverse process can be utilized. 6- and 7-Bromoindole can be coupled directly with arylboronic acids to give the 6- and 7-arylindoles, respectively a feature of the reaction is that protection of the indole nitrogen is unnecessary (Equation (48)) <94SL93>. A new route to 2-substituted indoles has been developed from trialkyl-(l-methylindol-2-yl)borates. The borate (153),... 

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