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Zinc chloride catalyzed ring opening of 3-mono- and 3,3-disubstituted glycidonitriles by means of acetyl chloride
Zdrojewski,Fedorynski,Jonczyk
, p. 941 - 946 (2007/10/03)
Glycidonitriles 1a-e, when treated with acetyl chloride in the presence of catalytic amounts of zinc chloride, afforded mixtures of chloroacetoxynitriles 2 and acetoxycyanoalkenes 4. Isolated nitriles 2 treated with triethylamine transform into substituted acetoxyacrylonitriles 3.
