Flash vacuum thermolysis of α-aminonitriles and subsequent HCN removal on solid base, a 'one line'multistep sequence to reactive N-methyleneamines

JC Guillemin, JM Denis

Index: Guillemin, J. C.; Denis, J. M. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1985 , # 14 p. 951 - 952

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Abstract

Simple and reactive imines play an important role both as intermediates and as products in a wide variety of chemical reactions. The detailed molecular properties of many of them remained unstudied for a long time largely owing to the lack of an efficient synthesis for the monomeric form in the gas phase. Methanimine and its higher homologue ethanimine were first detected in the pyrolysis decomposition products from several alkylamines and alkylazides or from ...