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Studies on β-Enaminonitriles: Part I- Benzoylation in Presence of Sodium in Benzene
Sarkar, Mili,Chattopadhyay, S.,Mahalanabis, Kumar K.
, p. 1133 - 1137 (2007/10/02)
Sodium dust in benzene brings about an unusual reductive decyanation of β-aminocrotononitrile (1) to afford N-benzoylisopropylamine (2) as the major product, for which a tentative mechanism involving radical addition has been suggested.Benzoylation of β-aryl-β-aminoacrylonitriles (10, 11 and 12), however, under somilar conditions furnish a complex mixture of compounds, namely, β-aryl-β-amino-α-benzoylacrylonitriles (14, 18 and 22), pyrimidines (13, 17 and 21), β-ketonitriles (19, 20 and 23) and benzamide (16) in varying yields but in no case the formation of the corresponding reductive decyanation products have been observed.
