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Synthesis of alkylindoles (review)

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Methods for obtaining alkylindoles, excluding the Fischer synthesis and direct alkylation, developed during the last 15 years are correlated.

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Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 9, pp. 1155–1172, September, 1987.

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Yurovskaya, M.A. Synthesis of alkylindoles (review). Chem Heterocycl Compd 23, 919–934 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00475352

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