Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan

Anodic cyanation of 1-arylpyrrolidines

W Liu, Y Ma, Y Yin, Y Zhao

Index: Liu, Wei; Ma, Yuan; Yin, Yingwu; Zhao, Yufen Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2006 , vol. 79, # 4 p. 577 - 579

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Citation Number: 11

Abstract

The electrochemical cyanation of 1-arylpyrrolidines was carried out in methanol containing sodium cyanide at a platinum anode in a divided cell. The reaction gave the corresponding α-aminonitriles 2, together with the unexpected 1-arylpyrrolidine-2-carboximidic acid methyl esters 3 as byproducts.