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Ionic liquid-promoted dehydration of aldoximes: a convenient access to aromatic, heteroaromatic and aliphatic nitriles

D Saha, A Saha, BC Ranu

Index: Saha, Debasree; Saha, Amit; Ranu, Brindaban C. Tetrahedron Letters, 2009 , vol. 50, # 44 p. 6088 - 6091

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Abstract

A simple and convenient procedure for the synthesis of nitriles by dehydration of aldoximes using an ionic liquid, 1-pentyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate,[pmim] BF4 under organic solvent-free condition, has been developed. A variety of aromatic, heteroaromatic and aliphatic aldoximes are converted to the corresponding nitriles. The ionic liquid is recovered and reused for subsequent reactions.