Nucleophilic Addition Reactions of Nitriles to Nitrones under Mild Silylation Conditions

Fumihiko Yoshimura; Taiki Abe; Keiji Tanino

doi:10.1055/s-0034-1378274

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Synlett 2014; 25(13): 1863-1868
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1378274

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Nucleophilic Addition Reactions of Nitriles to Nitrones under Mild Silylation Conditions

Fumihiko Yoshimura*

^aDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan Fax: +81(11)7064920 Email: fumi@sci.hokudai.ac.jp Email: ktanino@sci.hokudai.ac.jp

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Taiki Abe

^bGraduate School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan

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Keiji Tanino*

^aDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan Fax: +81(11)7064920 Email: fumi@sci.hokudai.ac.jp Email: ktanino@sci.hokudai.ac.jp

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Abstract

In the presence of triethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate and triethylamine, aliphatic nitriles undergo addition reactions with aldonitrones under non-basic, mild conditions, providing O-triethylsilyl ethers of β-N-hydroxyamino nitriles with high yield. The reaction appears to proceed through formation of an N-silyl ketene imine in situ followed by a Mannich-type reaction.

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nucleophilic addition - nitriles - nitrones - amines - hydroxylamine

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