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Synthesis of Nitrile-Bearing Quaternary Centers by an Equilibrium-Driven Transnitrilation and Anion-Relay Strategy
Alazet, Sébastien,West, Michael S.,Patel, Purvish,Rousseaux, Sophie A. L.
supporting information, p. 10300 - 10304 (2019/07/04)
The efficient preparation of nitrile-containing building blocks is of interest due to their utility as synthetic intermediates and their prevalence in pharmaceuticals. As a result, significant efforts have been made to develop methods to access these motifs which rely on safer and non-toxic sources of CN. Herein, we report that 2-methyl-2-phenylpropanenitrile is an efficient, non-toxic, electrophilic CN source for the synthesis of nitrile-bearing quaternary centers by a thermodynamic transnitrilation and anion-relay strategy. This one-pot process leads to nitrile products resulting from the gem-difunctionalization of alkyl lithium reagents.
