The Journal of Organic Chemistry

A facile conversion of aldehydes to nitriles

RF Smith, LE Walker

Index: Smith,R.F.; Walker,L.E. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1962 , vol. 27, p. 4372 - 4375

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Abstract

Hydrogenation of Simple Olefins (Table I).-Into a 100-ml. steel autoclave was placed 0.5 mole of the olefin to be reduced (cyclohexene, caprylene, or octene-1) together with 7.5 ml.(0.03 mole) of the triisobutylborane. The autoclave was purged with nitrogen, charged to 2500 psi with hydrogen, and heated at 235'for 5 hr. Under these conditions, quantitative reduction was realized as shown by infrared spectroscopy and gas phase ...