In situ phosphonium-containing Lewis base-catalyzed 1,6-cyanation reaction: a facile way to obtain α-diaryl and α-triaryl acetonitriles
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Yuan Chen, Xiaoyu Ren, Yumeng Guo, Bing Yi, Hongkui Zhang, Guowei Gao, Tianli Wang
We present a phosphonium-containing catalyst generated in situ from phosphine and tert-butyl acrylate that serves as an unusual Lewis base catalyst. It was applied for the promotion of a remote 1,6-cyanation reaction of p-quinone methides and fuchsones employing trimethylsilyl cyanide as the cyanide source. A diverse range of α-diaryl and α-triaryl acetonitriles was obtained in high yields under mild reaction conditions with low catalyst loading (5 mol%). The practicality and utility of this protocol were demonstrated via the gram-scale preparation and facile elaboration of products. Mechanistic investigations (in situ NMR and ESI-MS analysis) were employed to characterize the active zwitterionic phosphonium intermediate, which was the “true” active catalyst.
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