Nickel-catalyzed arylcyanation of alkynes.
A nickel catalyst coordinated by trimethylphosphine is found to effect the addition reaction of Ar-CN bonds in aromatic nitriles across alkynes to give rise to various beta-arylalkenenitriles.
Nakao
Yoshiaki
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Department of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan. nakao@npc05.kuic-u.ac.jp
Oda
Shinichi
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Hiyama
Tamejiro
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