85624-06-2Relevant articles and documents
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.
Reaction of Aryl Aldehydes with Thiocyanates in the Presence of Tributylphosphine
Yokoyama, Masataka,Ohteki, Hiroko,Kurauchi, Masahiko,Hoshi, Kazuko,Yanagisawa, Eizaburo,et al.
, p. 2635 - 2640 (2007/10/02)
Aryl aldehydes react with methyl thiocyanate in the presence of tributylphosphine to afford S-methyl thiobenzoates and arylacetonitriles in good yields.This is a novel disproportionation reaction involving carbon-carbon bond formation.These compounds thus obtained are easily converted into deoxybenzoins using sodium hydride.On the other hand, p-dialkylaminobenzaldehydes react with methyl thiocyanate under the same conditions to furnish both the corresponding trans-dicyanostilbenes and succinonitriles in moderate yields.Finally, the reaction was carried out with aryl thiocyanates resulting in the formation of addition products.
