β-dicarbonyl compounds has been studied. It was found that all of the amines investigated undergo condensation readily to form the corresponding enamines while the possible subsequent cyclization to give pyrrolo [2,3-f]quinolines was found only for the condensation product of 6-amino-2,3,5-trimethylindole with 4,4,4-trifluoroacetoacetic ester.
Keywords:6-amino-5-methoxy-2,3-dimethylindole, 6-amino-5-methoxy-1,2,3-trimethylindole, 6-amino-1,2,3,5-tetramethylindole, 6-amino-2,3,5-trimethylindole, acetylacetone, acetoacetic ester, pyrrolo[2,3-f]quinoline, ethyl 4,4,4-trifluoroacetoacetate.Continuing our investigation of the development of targeted methods for the synthesis of substituted (including trifluoromethyl-containing) pyrroloquinolines (potential biologically active compounds) with specific ring conjugation [1] we have studied the reactions of 6-amino-2,3,5-trimethylindole (1), 6-amino-1,2,3,5-tetramethylindole (2), 6-amino-5-methoxy-2,3-dimethylindole (3), and 6-amino-5-methoxy-1,2,3-trimethylindole (4) with 4,4,4-trifluoroacetoacetic ester and other dicarbonyl compounds.Heating a mixture of the aminoindole 1 with trifluoroacetoacetic ester in benzene with a catalytic amount of glacial acetic acid gave a compound which had spectroscopic data corresponding to the structure 5. N R N H 2 Me Me R 1 CF 3 COCH 2 CO 2 Et N R Me Me R 1 N H O CF 3 OH N R Me Me R 1 N H O CF 3 OH + 1-4 5 6-8 1,5 R = Me, R 1 = H, 2,6 R = R 1 = Me, 3,7 R = OMe, R 1 = H, 4,8 R = OMe, R 1 = Me __________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 Mordovian N. P. Ogarev