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Remote aryl cyanation via isocyanide-cyanide rearrangement on tosylmethyl isocyanide derivatives
Coppola, Anna,Sanchez-Alonso, Patricia,Sucunza, David,Burgos, Carolina,Alajarin, Ramon,Alvarez-Builla, Julio,Mosquera, Marta E. G.,Vaquero, Juan J.
supporting information, p. 3388 - 3391 (2013/07/26)
The reaction of alkyl tosylmethyl isocyanides and 2-bromobenzyl bromides in the presence of t-BuLi gives rise to a cascade reaction to give unexpected 2-substituted 2,3-dihydro-1H-indenimines which, upon treatment with t-BuOK, rearrange to 2-vinylbenzonitriles in high overall yields. This simple procedure represents a new approach to the synthesis of aromatic nitriles via isocyanide-cyanide interconversion.