Chemical Communications

Oxidative nucleophilic substitution of hydrogen in nitrobenzene with 2-phenylpropionitrile carbanion and potassium permanganate oxidant

M Mąkosza, K Staliński, C Klępka

Index: Makosza, Mieczyslaw; Stalinski, Krzysztof; Klepka, Cezary Chemical Communications, 1996 , # 7 p. 837 - 838

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Abstract

The carbanion of 2-phenylpropionitrile adds to nitrobenzene in the p-position in liquid ammonia to give the relative stable σH-adduct which is oxidised with KMnO4 to 2-phenyl-2- (4-nitrophenyl) propionitrile; the relationships of rates of various reactions in these systems are estimated.