Question

Here's a fun reaction for the week to play around with. It's called the Bartoli indole synthesis and creates an indole with a grignard and aromatic ring:

Answer 1

Here's a nitro group with an alkyl group attached called R, and here's the product. Anyone want to try guessing and drawing curved arrows to figure out the mechanism? We can brainstorm and figure it out. =D

Answer 2

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