As is known, 3-acylrnethylene-2-indolones may serve as initial compounds for obtaining various 3-spiro derivatives of hydroxyindole by the Diels -Alder reaction with alkadienes [I, 2]. Analogous compounds with close structures-3-spiroindolones-are formed by the Michael reaction of 3-acylmethylene-2-indolones with various CH-activated carbonyl compounds [3,4] and enamines [5], and by condensation with binucleophiles such as thiourea, phenylthiourea [6], and hydrazine hydrate [4,7]. 3-Benzoylmethylene hydroxyindoles are used as dipolarophiles in reactions with 1,3-dipolesazomethinilides [8,9]. Also described were the reactions of heterocyelization of 3-acylmethylene-2-indolones under the action of hydrazine and phenyllaydrazine [4, 7, I 0] and recyclization of 3-aroylmethylene-2-indolones in an acid medium into derivatives of 2-arylcinchoninic acids [11,12] possessLag antiviral activity [11]. However, the lack of convenient preparative methods for the synthesis of some 3-aeylmethylene-2-indolones (e.g., those having 3-alldoxycarbonyl ~ents) renders this class of compounds difficultty accessible [2, 5, 13 -15].F~entary evidence of the antibacterial [3,16], insecticide [16], antiviral [11], and anticonvulsive [17][18][19][20][21] activity of 3-methylene-2-indolones and their precursors-3-hydroxy-2-indolones [12], and the data on the use of these compounds in the synthesis of tryptamine, serotonin [22,23] and biolo#cally active polymethine dyes [24] stimulated further search for the biolo#cally active compounds among the 3-substituted hydroxyindoles [16,25].It was reported that some 3-methylene-2-indolones can be obtained by the Wittig reaction between isatins and methylenetriphenylphosphoranes [5,13,15,22,26,27]. Judgflag from the published data, the olefmation has a re#ospecific character, leading to the formation of (E)-isomers of 3-methylene hydroxyindoles [5,13], rather than re#oi-someric 2-methyleneindoxyls. In the previous paper we suggested a short quantum-chemical justification for the formation ofhydroxyindoles substituted in position 3 by the Wittig reaction [28].