“…As for the latter, the major strategies for introducing an amino group at the C3 indole position have remained the nitration [2,13,15,17,25,26] or azidation [18] reactions followed by a reduction to the free amine. The synthesis starts from the corresponding 3-indolecarboxylic acids by a twostep sequence involving the Curtius rearrangement [16,27], palladium-catalyzed amination of indole halides [28], as well as a number of some recent direct C-H amination methods [29][30][31][32][33][34], have been also reported. However, these transformations are mostly multistep processes that require subsequent protection-deprotection or functional group interconversion steps and often suffer from limited scope and efficacy.…”