The Reaction of Cyanogen with Arylmethylmagnesium Halides1

VF Raaen, JF Eastham

Index: Raaen,V.F.; Eastham,J.F. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1960 , vol. 82, p. 1349 - 1352

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 13

Abstract

When treated with cyanogen, benzylmagnesium chloride has been found to yield o- tolunitrile. This new o-substitution reaction has been found to occur also with cyanogen and three other benzyl-type Grignard reagents. Particularly interesting is the case with 2, 6- dimethylbenzylmagnesiuni chloride, whose substitution by cyanogen yields the non- aromatic triene VII.