Alkylation of Nitriles: Ketenimine Formation1

MS Newman, T Fukunaga, T Miwa

Index: Newman,M.S. et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1960 , vol. 82, p. 873 - 875

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Citation Number: 19

Abstract

The alkylation of nitriles by (1) conversion to an ambident anion3 with a strong base and (2) reaction of this anion with an alkyl halide, or other alkylating agent, has often been effectedS4-6 To our knowledge, only carbon alkylation has been reported, except for nitrogen alkylation in the case of trimethylchl~ rosilane.~ In connection with a program of synthesis and study of reactions of highly hindered nitriles* we had occasion to study the ...