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Unsaturated nitriles, which were reduced in two steps to tryptamines, were obtained by reaction of 3-indolylacetonitrile with heterocyclic aldehydes. Substituted β-carbolines were synthesized by cyclization of the acetyl derivatives of the tryptamines and subsequent photochemical dehydrogenation.
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Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 10, pp. 1382–1387, October 1974.
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Efremova, T.M., Kuchkova, K.I. & Semenov, A.A. Carbolines. Chem Heterocycl Compd 10, 1210–1214 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00470165
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