Canadian journal of chemistry

The photochemical nucleophile-olefin combination, aromatic substitution (photo-NOCAS) reaction (Part 4): methanol-olefins, methyl 4-cyanobenzoate

K McMahon, DR Arnold

Index: McMahon, Kevin; Arnold, Donald R. Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 1993 , vol. 71, # 4 p. 450 - 468

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Citation Number: 18

Abstract

Dicyanobenzene-1, 4 (1) and-1, 2 are known to undergo substitution upon irradiation, in the presence of an olefin, in acetonitrile-methanol (3: 1) solution. The products are 1: 1: 1 (methanol: olefin: aromatic) adducts, substituted on the aromatic ring with loss of a cyano group. This reaction, referred to as the photo-NOCAS (nucleophile-olefin combination, aromatic substitution) reaction, has been shown to be fairly general with regard to the ...