Reaction of a stable aminoarylcarbene with 2-chloroacrylonitrile: Dearomatizing cyclization rather than cyclopropanation

Tetrahedron Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 28, 2004, Pages 5391-5393

  Solé, Stéphane ^a   Cattoën, Xavier ^a,b   Gornitzka, Heinz ^a   Bourissou, Didier ^a   Bertrand, Guy ^a,b  

^a UMR 5069) 118 route de Narbonne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbenes; Cyclopropanation; Dearomatization

Indexed keywords

2 CHLOROACRYLONITRILE; ACRYLONITRILE; CARBENOID; CYCLOPROPANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AROMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CYCLIZATION; CYCLOPROPANATION; MICHAEL ADDITION; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 2942665449     PISSN: 00404039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2004.05.082     Document Type: Article

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