The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Electrochemical transformations of aldehydes into methyl carboxylates and nitriles

M Okimoto, T Chiba

Index: Okimoto, Mitsuhiro; Chiba, Toshiro Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1988 , vol. 53, # 1 p. 218 - 219

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Citation Number: 46

Abstract

The one-step transformation of aldehydes (1) into the corresponding methyl carboxylates (2) or nitriles (3) appears to be an attractive synthetic process. Although several methods have been reported for the direct preparation of 2 from 1, l or 3 from 1 with ammonia: they usually require large amounts of reagents, elevated temperature, and f or a lengthy reaction period. We describe in this paper an efficient procedure for obtaining 2 or 3 from 1 by means of ...