The catalytic addition reactions of X–Y-type substrates to carbon–carbon multiple bonds are of continued interest due to the facile access to 1,2-difunctional units from simple alkenes or alkynes with ideal atom efficiency. 1 Among these transformations, addition reactions of X–CN to alkynes simultaneously form vinyl–X and vinyl–carbon bonds, both of which can be used to construct complex structures. Several notable examples of palladium- or nickel-catalysed ...
[Shishoo, C. J.; Pathak, U. S.; Jain, K. S.; Devani, I. T.; Chhabria, M. T. Indian Journal of Chemistry, Section B: Organic Chemistry Including Medicinal Chemistry, 1994 , vol. 33, # 5 p. 436 - 440]
