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Tertiary Carbinamines by Addition of Organocerium Reagents to Nitriles and Ketimines
Ciganek, Engelbert
, p. 4521 - 4527 (2007/10/02)
Organocerium reagents, prepared by reaction of aromatic and primary and secondary alkyllithium reagents with anhydrous cerium chloride, add to nitriles twice to give tertiary carbinamines in often excellent yields.Addition of n-BuCeCl2 to acetophenone is about 4 times faster than addition to benzonitrile.Only 1,2-diaddition is observed in the reaction of MeCeCl2 with cinnamonitrile.The species formed in the double addition of organocerium reagents to nitriles are sufficiently basic to generate a benzyne intermediate by abstraction of an aromatic proton and nucleophilic enough to undergo an intramolecular Chichibabin reaction.Reaction of N-unsubstituted ketimines or their lithium salts with organocerium reagents permits the synthesis of tertiary carbinamines with three different groups on the tertiary carbon center.
