Synthesis of some 2-aminofurans from cyanoacetone enolate and their rearrangement to 3-cyanopyrroles with ammonia

JF Blount, DL Coffen, DA Katonak

Index: Journal of Organic Chemistry, , vol. 43, p. 3821 - 3824

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Citation Number: 26

Abstract

... Cyanoacetone' is a compound lacking in both stability and availability and accordingly has rather limited utility in preparative organic chemistry. ... Finally, when the group Rz is a tertiary amide group, ie, dimethylamide, the chemistry reverts to the simple situation in ... 3824 J. Org. ...