Patent ID: 7342119

Claim:
A process for making a substituted indole compound, said process comprising the steps of: a) reacting the compounds in a non-protic polar solvent in the presence of a catalyst to form the intermediate compound wherein Ph represents phenyl; and X represents a moiety selected from the group consisting of H, F, Cl, Br, C 1 -C 10 -alkyl, C 3 -C 10 -cycloalkyl, and C 6 -C 10 -aryl, the alkyl moiety being optionally substituted with one or more atoms selected from F, Cl and Br, and the cycloalkyl and aryl moieties being optionally substituted with from one to three substituents selected from F, Cl, Br and C 1 -C 6 -alkyl; and then, b) heating said intermediate compound in the solvent in the presence of the catalyst to form the substituted indole compound