Supported monomeric vanadium catalyst for dehydration of amides to form nitriles

…, T Mitsudome, T Mizugaki, K Jitsukawa…

Index: Sueoka, Shoichiro; Mitsudome, Takato; Mizugaki, Tomoo; Jitsukawa, Koichiro; Kaneda, Kiyotomi Chemical Communications, 2010 , vol. 46, # 43 p. 8243 - 8245

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Abstract

Nitriles are of great importance as synthetic intermediates for the preparation of pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals and dyes. Among the variety of known synthetic routes to nitriles, dehydration of primary amides is one of the most straightforward methods. 1 Although many reports on the useful dehydration of amides have been published, most of these methods need excess amounts of stoichiometric reagents, such as P 2 O 5 , 2a SOCl 2 2b and ...