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Reactions of 3-arylpropenenitriles with arenes under superelectrophilic activation conditions: Hydroarylation of the carbon-carbon double bond followed by cyclization into 3-arylindanones
Gorbunova, Yelizaveta,Zakusilo, Dmitriy N.,Boyarskaya, Irina A.,Vasilyev, Aleksander V.
, (2020/05/25)
Reactions of 3-arylpropenenitriles [ArCH[dbnd]CHCN] with arenes [Ar'H] under the superelectrophilic activation conditions with Br?nsted superacid TfOH (CF3SO3H) or strong Lewis acid AlBr3 result, first, in the formation of products of hydroarylation of the carbon-carbon double bond, 3,3-diarylpropanenitriles [Ar(Ar’)CHCH2CN]. Reactions may go further in TfOH leading to 3-arylindanones, as products of intramolecular aromatic acylation by the electrophilically activated nitrile group. Intermediate cationic species, derived at the protonation of the starting 3-arylpropenenitriles onto the carbon of C[dbnd]C bond and the nitrile nitrogen, have been studied by DFT calculation. A plausible reaction mechanism including the formation of highly reactive dications [(Ar)HC+–CH2C+ = NH] has been proposed. The obtained 3,3-diarylpropanenitriles have been transformed into pharmaceutically valuable 5-(2,2-diarylethyl)-1H-tetrazoles [Ar(Ar’)CHCH2Tetr] and 3-diarylpropylamines [Ar(Ar’)CH(CH2)2NH2] by the reactions with NaN3 and LiAlH4 correspondingly.
COMPARATIVE REACTIVITY OF NITRILES OF PARA-SUBSTITUTED CINNAMIC ACIDS IN THE ALKYLATION OF BENZENE IN THE PRESENCE OF ALUMINUM CHLORIDE
Grebenyuk, A. D.,Grinshpun, V. D.,L'vov, V. M.
, p. 732 - 736 (2007/10/02)
The relative rate constants for the reactions of the nitriles of p-methoxy, p-methyl, and p-chlorocinnamic acids with benzene in the presence of aluminum chloride were determined by the method of competing reactions in relation to cinnamonitrile.The negative sign of ρ indicates that the electrophilic stage of complex formation between the unsaturated nitrile and aluminum chloride has a deciding role in the alkylation process.
