A nitridoniobium (V) reagent that effects acid chloride to organic nitrile conversion: Synthesis via heterodinuclear (Nb/Mo) dinitrogen cleavage, mechanistic insights, …

…, NA Piro, CR Clough, CC Cummins

Index: Figueroa, Joshua S.; Piro, Nicholas A.; Clough, Christopher R.; Cummins, Christopher C. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006 , vol. 128, # 3 p. 940 - 950

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Abstract

The transformation of acid chlorides (RC (O) Cl) to organic nitriles (RC⋮ N) by the terminal niobium nitride anion [N⋮ Nb (N [Np] Ar) 3]-([1a-N]-, where Np= neopentyl and Ar= 3, 5- Me2C6H3) via isovalent N for O (Cl) metathetical exchange is presented. Nitrido anion [1a- N]-is obtained in a heterodinuclear N2 scission reaction employing the molybdenum trisamide system, Mo (N [R] Ar) 3 (R= t-Bu, 2a; R= Np, 2b), as a reaction partner. ...