All articles of this category Using lithium cyanide a simple method for the transformation of 3-acetylindole into the N -alkyl, N -acyl, and N - p -toluenesulfonyl derivatives in good yield is reported. 3-Indolecarbaldehyde is also N -alkylated by the same procedure.
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Kurihara et al. (1987) studied this question.