Chemistry Letters

Dibutyltin dibromide-catalyzed trimethylsilylcyanation of aldehydes and imines

A Yanagisawa, T Matsumoto, T Arai, K Yoshida

Index: Yanagisawa, Akira; Matsumoto, Takuya; Arai, Takayoshi; Yoshida, Kazuhiro Chemistry Letters, 2009 , vol. 38, # 4 p. 336 - 337

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Abstract

Akira Yanagisawa,* Takuya Matsumoto, Takayoshi Arai, and Kazuhiro Yoshida Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522 ... (Received January 28, 2009; CL-090094; E-mail: ayanagi@faculty.chiba-u.jp) ... Dibutyltin dibromide efficiently catalyzes addition of tri- methylsilyl cyanide to aldehydes and aldimines. Various tri- methylsilylated cyanohydrins and -aminonitriles are obtained in moderate to high yield by this method.