Catalytic cyanomethylation of carbonyl compounds and imines with highly basic phosphine
作者:Satoru Matsukawa、Eri Kitazaki
DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2008.02.155
日期:2008.4
A highly basicphosphine, tris(2,4,6-trimethoxy phenyl)phosphine (TTMPP), catalyzes cyanomethylation using trimethylsilylacetonitrile (TMSCH2CN) to give the corresponding products in good to high yields, with both carbonyl compounds and imines.
A copper fluoride-catalyzed cyanomethylation that can be applied to a wide range of ketones and aldehydes was developed using TMSCH2-CN as a nucleophile. The reaction was extended to a conceptually more advanced copper alkoxide-catalyzed direct addition of alkylnitriles to aldehydes, which can act as a surrogate direct catalytic aldol reaction of esters. These reactions can be applied to the first catalytic enantioselective cyanomethylation of ketones and direct catalytic enantioselective cyanomethylation of aldehydes.
Electroreductive ring-opening of .alpha.,.beta.-epoxy carbonyl compounds and their homologs through recyclable use of diphenyl diselenide or diphenyl ditelluride as a mediator