Cu-mediated nitrogen atom transfer via C≡N bond cleavage.
A nitrogen atom transfer to organic molecules via Cu-mediated C-N triple bond cleavage is firstly developed, which provides a variety of functionalized aryl nitriles from the readily accessible acetonitrile and aryl aldehydes.
State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China. zhouyb@hnu.edu.cn sf_yin@hnu.edu.cn.
Lixin
L
Liu
Jianyu
J
Dong
Yaxing
Y
Zhang
Yongbo
Y
Zhou
Shuang-Feng
SF
Yin