Novel C-C bond cleavage from arylacetonitriles in alcohols to aryl carboxylic esters using potassium iodide and catalytic amount of samarium

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 2851-2857

  Yu, Mingxin ^a   Wen, Weijiang ^a   Wang, Zhiyuan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aryl carboxylic ester; Arylacetonitrile; C C bond cleavage; Potassium iodide; Samarium

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE DERIVATIVE; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; ESTER; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM IODIDE; SAMARIUM;

ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON DONATING GROUP; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRON WITHDRAWING GROUP; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM YIELD; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750069726     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910600770680     Document Type: Article

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