Tetrahedron letters

RhCl 3-catalyzed hydroboration of alkenyl nitriles

AU Buranov, TC Morrill

Index: Buranov, Anvar U.; Morrill, Terence C. Tetrahedron Letters, 2003 , vol. 44, # 33 p. 6301 - 6304

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Abstract

RhCl3-promoted hydroboration–oxidation reactions of representative alkenyl nitriles have been carried out. Carbanion of acetonitrile is formed from the carbon carbon heterolytic bond breaking in allyl cyanide during hydroboration. An unexpected process-trimerization of carbanion of acetonitrile has lead to the formation of 4-amino-2, 6-dimethylpyrimidine.