Indoles 3-nitroso-, tautomerism

Indole, l-methyl-2-sulfonamido-tautomerism, 4, 200 Indole, l-methyl-3-sulfonamido-tautomerism, 4, 200 Indole, (methylthio)-synthesis, 4, 368 Indole, 3-(methylthio)-synthesis, 4, 338, 368 Indole, l-methyl-3-vinyl-oxidation, 4, 280 Indole, nitro-rearrangement, 4, 297 Indole, 3-nitro-nitration, 4, 211, 213 reduction, 4, 362 synthesis, 4, 210, 363 Indole, 5-nitro-synthesis, 4, 211, 363 Indole, nitroso-rearrangement, 4, 297 Indole, 1-nitroso-reduction, 4, 362 Indole, 3-nitroso-reduction, 4, 362 Indole, nitrovinyl-... 

Upon reaction with nitrous acid, indole produces a complex mixture of products. In addition to 3-oximino-3H -indole (16), which is the stable tautomeric form of 3-nitrosoindole (17), dimeric products of the type (18) and (19) are also formed. In contrast, (16) appears to be the sole product of the nitrosation of indole with amyl nitrite and sodium ethoxide (72HC(25-2)537). Studies of the nitrosation of pyrrole are somewhat indecisive. The mononitrosopyrrole, obtained from the reaction of pyrrole with nitrous acid, has not been fully characterized, but there is some evidence that nitrosation of pyrrole with amyl nitrite and sodium ethoxide leads to the sodium salt of the 3-nitroso derivative. However, upon the addition of acid, the product rearranges to give the oxime of 3-formylisoxazole (20) (B-77MI30502). 

Heating 3-nitroso-2-phenyl-l//-indole with excess phosphoryl chloride or tosyl chloride in sulfolane at 200 C for 1 h, followed by dilution with water, produces 2-phenylquinazolin-4(3//)-one in 90 or 68% yield, respectively. The ring expansion proceeds via the second-order Beckmann rearrangement of the imino-oxime tautomeric form of 3-nitroso-2-phenyl-l//-indole. °... 

Another example of the reaction proceeding in a similar manner is the conversion of 2-(5-chloro-2-nitrophenyl)-3-phenylpropionitrile into A-hydroxyindole derivative (Scheme 71) [189]. The intermediate vinyl nitroso compound undergoes electrocyclization, resulting in the formation of nitrone (2//-indole N-oxide), which is tautomerized into A-hydroxyindole. 

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