Journal of the American Chemical Society

Synthesis and reactivity of. alpha.-cyanoenamines. Novel general method for preparing. alpha.-diketones from amides

J Toye, L Ghosez

Index: Toye,J.; Ghosez,L. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1975 , vol. 97, # 8 p. 2276 - 2277

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Abstract

We wish to report the utility of a-cyanoenamines as a hitherto unrecognized class of readily available and reactive synthetic intermediates which allow, inter alia, for a versatile and efficient method of synthesis of a-diketones. The choice of a starting material for the synthesis of a-cyanoenamines has been dictated by our recent studies' on a- chloroenamines, a class of reagents readily available from carboxamides.