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Reduction of amides

Started by Vibrating_Lights, February 06, 2003, 05:52:00 AM

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Vibrating_Lights

If one was to have some 4-acetoxyindol-3-yl-N,N-diethylglyoxylamide what besides LAH would remove the =O to give the dialykated tryptamine.  Would a Clemmenson Zn/HCl do the trick. Or is that to harsh for the indole.  Is it also possible to add the acetoxy with GAA instead of AAnhydride.
VL_


Rhodium

Please do not open two threads about the synthesis of the same compound. But anyway, acetic acid is definitely not of any use to make the psilocin O-Acetyl ester.

Barium

Red-Al or, possibly, sodium triacetoxyborohydride formed in situ from sodium borohydride and GAA.


Lilienthal

Sodium borohydride / acetic acid bears the risk of reducing the indolic system to an indoline (2,3-doublebond hydrogenation).
As far as I know a Clemmenson reduction only reduces keto groups adjacent to aromatic rings, so if it  works, you would end up with the amide.