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Chemical Communications

Gold-complexes catalyzed oxidative α-cyanation of tertiary amines†

Yan Zhang,a   Hao Peng,a   Ming Zhang,a   Yixiang Chenga  and  Chengjian Zhu*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
E-mail: cjzhu@nju.edu.cn
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b State Key Laboratory of Organometallic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

Abstract

Oxidative α-cyanation of tertiary amines is catalyzed by gold complexes with trimethylsilyl cyanide to afford the corresponding α-aminonitriles in the presence of tert-butyl hydroperoxide in good to excellent yields under acid-free conditions at room temperature.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC03844J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Sep 2010
Accepted
17 Nov 2010
First published
13 Dec 2010

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 2354-2356

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Gold-complexes catalyzed oxidative α-cyanation of tertiary amines

Y. Zhang, H. Peng, M. Zhang, Y. Cheng and C. Zhu, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 2354 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC03844J

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