136 0091-150X/93/2702-0136512.50 9 1993 Plenum Publishin~ Corporation reaction. Thus the reaction of benzoquinone (I) with l-acetyl-2-amino-l-propene (IIa) leads to a mixture of 2- methyl-3-acetyl-5-hydroxyindole (III, R= H)(IIIa) and-benzofuran (IV)[5], but the use of the N- methyl (IIb) and N-ethyl derivatives of enaminoketone IIa gave only the benzofuran IV [3]. Conversely, treatment of quinone I with the corresponding N-aryl analogs (IIc and IId) ...