Uncatalysed trimethylsilyl cyanide addition to aldehydes
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 19,p. 2383-2384
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19950002383
Abstract
Trimethylsilyl cyanide adds to aldehydes in acetonitrile without the use of a catalyst whereas reaction with ketones under similar conditions is extremely slow. By this procedure aldehydes can react chemoselectively with trimethylsilyl cyanide in the presence of ketones.Keywords
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