Chemistry: A European Journal 2013-03-25

E/Z oxime isomerism in PhC(NOH)CN.

D Scott Bohle, Zhijie Chua, Inna Perepichka, Kristopher Rosadiuk

Index: Chemistry 19(13) , 4223-9, (2013)

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Abstract

The reaction of nitric oxide with benzyl cyanide in the presence of potassium methoxide at low temperature gave the dipotassium salt of a bis-diazeniumdiolate 2 in excellent yield. Two new stereospecific syntheses of E or Z 2-(hydroxyimino)-2-phenylacetonitrile from 2 have been found. The thermodynamics of the E/Z isomerization has been investigated spectroscopically in solution, in the solid state by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and theoretically in the gas phase. Evidence of catalysis by NO of E/Z oxime isomerization has been observed.Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.