Synlett 2019; 30(10): 1209-1214
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1611793
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1,10-Phenanthroline- or Electron-Promoted Cyanation of Aryl Iodides

a   Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan   Email: suga@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp   Email: mitsudo@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
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Kazuki Yoshioka
a   Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan   Email: suga@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp   Email: mitsudo@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
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Takayuki Hirata
a   Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan   Email: suga@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp   Email: mitsudo@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
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a   Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan   Email: suga@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp   Email: mitsudo@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
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Koji Midorikawa
b   Nippoh Chemicals Co., Ltd., 8-15, 4-Chome, Nihonbashi-Honchou, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo 103-0023, Japan
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a   Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan   Email: suga@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp   Email: mitsudo@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
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This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP16K05695, JP16K05777, JP16H01155, and JP18H04415 in Middle Molecular Strategy.

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Publication History

Received: 05 February 2019

Accepted after revision: 24 March 2019

Publication Date:
11 April 2019 (online)


Published as part of the Cluster Electrochemical Synthesis and Catalysis

Abstract

A 1,10-phenanthroline-promoted cyanation of aryl iodides has been developed. 1,10-Phenanthroline worked as an organocatalyst for the reaction of aryl iodides with tetraalkylammonium cyanide to afford aryl cyanides. A similar reaction occurred through an electroreductive process.

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