An efficient and facile one-pot synthesis of cyanohydrin esters from carbonyl compounds catalyzed by iron(III) chloride

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 46, Issue 44, 2005, Pages 7487-7490

  Iwanami, Katsuyuki ^a   Aoyagi, Masaru ^a   Oriyama, Takeshi ^a  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acid anhydride; Carbonyl compound; Cyanation; Cyanohydrin ester; Iron(III) chloride; Trimethylsilyl cyanide

Indexed keywords

ACID ANHYDRIDE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CYANIDE; CYANOHYDRIN; ESTER; FERROUS CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 26244466243     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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