Some Michael condensations involving benzyl cyanide

RW Helmkamp, LJ Tanghe, JT Plati

Index: Helmkamp; Tanghe; Plati Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1940 , vol. 62, p. 3215,3218

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Abstract

From the reaction mixture it is possible to isolate, in addition to the cyclohexanone derivative, two compounds isomeric with it. These substances are evidently stereoisomers having the openchained structure I, for they readily reduce permanganate and are transformed, when dissolved in hot ethyl alcohol containing a trace of sodium hydroxide, into the saturated cyclic compound 11. No open-chained addition products have ever been ...