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Chemical Communications

An insight into the Lewis acid-catalyzed intramolecular aminocyanation and oxycyanation of alkenes: a concerted or stepwise mechanism†

Jiyang Zhao,ab   Guoqiang Wanga  and  Shuhua Li*a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanjing University, 22 Hankou Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, P. R. China
E-mail: shuhua@nju.edu.cn

b Office of Science and Technology, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, 3601 Hongjing Dadao, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211171, P. R. China

Abstract

Density functional theory investigations reveal that the intramolecular additions of N–CN bonds to alkenes proceed in a novel asynchronous and concerted mechanism, while the intramolecular addition of O–CN bonds to alkenes may occur by both concerted and stepwise pathways.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC06808H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Aug 2015
Accepted
27 Aug 2015
First published
27 Aug 2015

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 15450-15453

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An insight into the Lewis acid-catalyzed intramolecular aminocyanation and oxycyanation of alkenes: a concerted or stepwise mechanism

J. Zhao, G. Wang and S. Li, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 15450 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC06808H

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