Boron-Catalyzed Silylative Reduction of Nitriles in Accessing Primary Amines and Imines
Narasimhulu Gandhamsetty, Jinseong Jeong, Juhyeon Park, Sehoon Park and Sukbok Chang*
*Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 305-701, Korea,
Email: sbchang
kaist.ac.kr
N. Gandhamsetty, J. Jeong, Y. Park, S. Park, S. Chang, J. Org. Chem., 2015, 80, 7281-7287.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5b00941
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Abstract
Silylative reduction of nitriles under transition metal-free conditions converts alkyl and (hetero)aryl nitriles efficiently to primary amines under mild conditions. The use of sterically bulky silanes enabled a partial reduction leading to N-silylimines.
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Key Words
reduction of nitriles, diethylsilane
ID: J42-Y2015
