Cj. Moody et Ai. Morrell, INTRAMOLECULAR DIELS-ALDER REACTIONS OF PYRANO[4,3-B]-INDOL-3-ONES - PREPARATION OF [C]-ANNELATED CARBAZOLES, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, 71(6-8), 1994, pp. 309-314
The pyrano[4,3-b]indol-3-ones (5), readily prepared from t-butyl indol
e-2-acetate (2) in three steps, undergo facile intramolecular Diels-Al
der reaction on heating to give, after loss of carbon dioxide, the [c]
-annelated carbazoles (6).