is this reaction taking place in the aqueous or the solid state? Because I have been able to come with a slightly different mechanism for the reaction depicted here as opposed to the one accepted. I had to use water for hydrolysis in one step there, and I also simply used PCl5 per se without making it's ions. I ended up with the final product shown, along with the elimination of HCl and POCl3

If it helps, I could describe my mechanism scheme further

> a factory is mixing carbon monoxide with this iron oxide

I wonder how they imagine this to happen.

Hi. I wonder what trick do you use for proper typography of e.g. (2R)-butan-2-ol in comments.

… in a post, I use 2<i>R</i>, but none of "<i/>", "*", "_" work for me in comments, even with some trick attempts with ZWSP character.

Some invisible unicode characters should work, e.g. U+2060.

… neither. (I exercise below chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4313/544 )

I saw that.

"N,N-Dimethyl-2-(indol-3-yl)glyoxylamide" is still in a wrong order.

2-(indol-3-yl)-N,N-dimethylglyoxylamide would be a bit better.

Nevertheless, your PIN is correct.

I know, I just intended to do minimal edit for "deconfusion". Wrong order does not tend to confuse.

In this case, the wrong order confuses ChemDraw. ;-)

It puts the N,N-dimethyl on the wrong N.

I can imagine that programming name to structure is hard.

I've converted it into meta Q.: chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4359/…

haha