A new facile route to primary alkanenitriles from terminal alkenes via a hydroboration–cyanation sequence

Y Masuda, M Hoshi, A Arase

Index: Masuda, Yuzuru; Hoshi, Masayuki; Arase, Akira Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1989 , # 5 p. 266 - 267

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Abstract

Although some methods for the synthesis of alkanenitriles by two- or more-carbon homologation of organoborane have been reported,la synthesis of secondary alkanenitrile from trialkylcyanoborate,2 reported previously by us, seemed to be a potentially useful method for the conversion of internal alkenes to the corresponding one-carbon homologated secon- dary alkanenitriles.3 However, an attempt to obtain primary alkanenitriles from terminal ...