A novel generation of indole-2,3-quinodimethanes.

[reaction: see text] A novel and efficient procedure for the generation of the reactive indole-2,3-quinodimethane intermediates from the allenylanilines is described. The indole-2,3-quinodimethane intermediates were captured by several dienophiles to afford the corresponding tetrahydro- and dihydrocarbazole derivatives. This method is significantly different from the previously reported ones, which involve the 1,4-elimination or its related reactions of the indole derivatives that possess suitable substituents at both the C-2 and C-3 positions.

Synthesis of hexahydropyridazine-3-phosphonic acid.

The synthesis of hexahydropyridazine-3-phosphonic acid (piperidazine-3-phosphonic acid) was performed via a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction followed by Lewis acid-catalyzed phosphonylation. This two-step procedure was improved to a one-pot reaction.