Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2010-09-21

Direct oxidative coupling of benzenes with acrylonitriles to cinnamonitriles catalyzed by Pd(OAc)(2)/HPMoV/O(2) system.

Yasushi Obora, Yoshihisa Okabe, Yasutaka Ishii

Index: Org. Biomol. Chem. 8(18) , 4071-3, (2010)

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Abstract

A facile direct synthesis of cinnamonitriles from acrylonitriles and benzenes is successfully achieved by using Pd(OAc)(2)/HPMoV/O(2) catalyst system via the direct C-H bond activation of benzenes using molecular oxygen as a terminal oxidant.