Yellium,
Having answered your own question to your own satisfaction, could you expand on it a bit more in case anyone else might bee interested? I mean, are these glyoxylamides the result of reacting oxalyl chloride with indole and a dialkylamine? I'd suppose so, but you're being stingy with words, for those of us who don't fall asleep with TIhKaL on the pillow. Pray tell, what is Red-Al? Is it the same as the aluminum amalgam as used in the phenylacetone reductive aminations next door? Or is an activated type of aluminum dust? Give me a few more words, make me happy. I've been looking (you wouldn't believe how long) for a reliable, verified alternative to LAH in that particular reduction, and to be tittilated by a cryptic teaser like this is frustrating. So please say it again, but just tell me what you're talking about this time.
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