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The Sandmeyer reaction was used to prepare 2,3-dioxo-2,3-dihydrobenzo[b]furoindoles which could be reduced with diborane or with complex hydrides to give the corresponding unsubstituted as well as the 3-hydroxybenzo[b]furoindoles.
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Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No 11, pp. 1683–1689, November, 2004.
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Khoshtariya, T.E., Matnadze, M.M., Mirziashvili, N.T. et al. Synthesis and reductive reactions of 2,3-dioxo-2,3-dihydrobenzo[b]furo[2,3-f]-, -[2,3-g]-, and -[3,2-e]indoles. Chem Heterocycl Compd 40, 1454–1459 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10593-005-0065-z
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