[reaction: see text]. N-benzoylated quinone imine ketals undergo smooth cycloadditions in a [4 + 2] sense to yield the expected cycloadducts. The crude cycloadducts, when subjected to a short series of simple transformations, produce synthetically useful quantities of 5-methoxyindoles in excellent overall yields.
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