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white crystalline powder

Purify N-methylcarbazole by chromatography on silica gel and eluting with CHCl3/Me2CO/Et2O (100:5:1 v/v), or by flash chromatography using pet ether, or by zone melting followed by recrystallisation from pet ether or EtOH. [Flo & Pindus Annalen 509 1987, Kashima et al. J Heterocycl Chem 24 913 1987, UV: Armarego Physical Methods in Heterocyclic Chemistry (Ed Katritzky, Academic Press) Vol III 158 1971, Beilstein 20 H 436.]