Ghandi Mehdi, Taheri Abuzar
School of Chemistry, University College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Molecules. 2009 Mar 5;14(3):1056-61. doi: 10.3390/molecules14031056.
The three component reaction of primary aliphatic amines, glyoxalic acid and indole or N-methylindole in water at ambient temperature affords indol-3-yl or N-methylindol-3-yl-glycine in almost quantitative yields.