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The use of potassium carbonate in dimethylformamide (DMF) makes it possible to carry out the N-alkylation of isatins with alkyl bromides and iodides and acyl chlorides at room temperature and with alkyl chlorides at elevated temperatures (70–80 °C) without ring opening. The previously inaccessible N-(2-chloroethyl)-isatins were obtained by alkylation of isatin with 1,2-dichloroethane. The condensation of isatins with 1,3-dichloro-2-butene takes place only at the chlorine atom in the allyl position of the latter.
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Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 353–355, March, 1983.
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Radul, O.M., Zhungietu, G.I., Rekhter, M.A. et al. Simple method for the preparation of 1-substituted isatins. Chem Heterocycl Compd 19, 286–288 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00513261
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00513261