Application of chelating diphosphine ligands in the nickel-catalysed hydrocyanation of alk-l-enes and ω-unsaturated fatty acid esters

Abstract

The hydrocyanation of alk-l-enes and ω-unsaturated fatty acid esters using zerovalent nickel complexes yields the corresponding nitriles and cyanoesters, which can be useful starting materials in organic synthesis.

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