Chemistry Letters

A Novel Decyanogenative Coupling of. ALPHA.-Cyanoimines Mediated by Samarium. A Facile Route to. ALPHA.-Diketimines

AJ Thakur, D Prajapati, JS Sandhu

Index: Thakur, Ashim J.; Prajapati, Dipak; Sandhu, Jagir S. Chemistry Letters, 2004 , vol. 33, # 2 p. 102 - 103

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Abstract

Recently, samarium metal, its salts and organosamarium compounds have been widely employed as useful reagents or catalysts in organic synthesis.1 Since the pioneering studies by Kagan2 and co-workers demonstrated the particular effective- ness of SmI2, which is a powerful single-electron transfer reduc- tant in the lanthanide series, the utilisation of SmI2 in synthetic organic chemistry has been dramatically documented.3 The ver- satility of SmI2 is ...