Light-mediated cyanomethylation of cycloalkenes with acetonitrile

HR Sonawane, NS Bellur, VG Shah

Index: Sonawane, Harikisan R.; Bellur, Nanjundiah S.; Shah, Virendra G. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1990 , # 22 p. 1603 - 1605

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Abstract

The Kharasch addition'-3 of aldehydes, alcohols and amines to alkenes by a free radical mechanism has been investigated some time ago. However, such an addition of nitriles to alkenes to yield homologous alkanonitriles has not been achieved; the only reports pertain to the addition of aceto- nitrile to norbornene, wherein its triplet excited-state che- mistry4 or direct excitation of its silver salt complex5 was investigated. The low quantum efficiencies of the photo- ...