Highly efficient and catalytic conversion of aldoximes to nitriles.
Catalytic dehydration of aldoximes can be performed highly efficiently with a catalyst system of [RuCl(2)(p-cymene)](2)/molecular sieves under essentially neutral and mild conditions, and various types of cyano compounds are produced in good to excellent yields. [reaction: see text]
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Department of Chemistry, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea.
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