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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 1981
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1978
Martin E Kuehne, Burlington, VT (US);
Omnium Chimique Societe Anonyme, Brussels, BE;
Abstract
This invention relates to the preparation of vincadifformine and related derivatives which are useful as starting material for the synthesis of vincamine and other related compounds possessing interesting psychopharmacologic properties. A N-benzyl-tetrahydro-.gamma.-carboline compound (III) is halogenated with t-butyl hypochlorite to obtain a haloindolenine compound which is directly treated with a metal dialkyl malonate such as thallium dialkyl malonate to provide a dialkyl 3-benzyl-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexahydroazepino (4,5-b) indole-5,5-dicarboxylate compound, said latter compound being hydrogenated to provide a dialkyl 1,2,3,4,5,6 hexahydroazepino (4,5-b) indole-5,5-dicarboxylate, said latter compound being condensed with a functionalized aldehyde, typically a haloaldehyde, to provide vincadifformine or a related derivative by passing through an intermediate compound being a salt of a dialkyl 3,3-(alkenyl)-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexahydroazepino(4,5-b) indolinium-(5,5)-dicarboxylate.