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A new type of cascade reaction: direct conversion of carbonyl compounds and malononitrile into substituted tetracyanocyclopropanes
Elinson, Michail N.,Vereshchagin, Anatolii N.,Stepanov, Nikita O.,Ilovaisky, Alexey I.,Vorontsov, Alexander Ya.,Nikishin, Gennady I.
, p. 6057 - 6062 (2009)
A new type of chemical cascade reaction was found: the direct formation of cyclopropanes from carbonyl compounds and C-H acid. The action of free halogen or active halogen containing compounds on a mixture of 1 equiv of carbonyl compound and 2 equiv of malononitrile in a basic alcohol solution results in the formation of substituted 1,1,2,2-tetracyanocyclopropanes in 15-80% yield. The latter are well-known precursors for the different bicyclic heterosystems, among them compounds containing a cyclopropane ring and possessing different types of pharmacological activity. Thus, the new, simple and efficient 'one-pot' way to substituted tetracyanocyclopropanes in 50-80% yield was found directly from such simple and reasonable starting compounds as aldehydes, or some cyclic ketones, or substituted cyclohexanones and malononitrile.
