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Scheme 1. A plausible reaction pathway for the reductive elimination.
3.2. Reaction of 1 with acrylonitrile
Acknowledgements
To an acetone (20 ml) solution of 1 (34 mg, 0.10
mmol) was added acrylonitrile (0.66 cm3, 10 mmol).
After the reaction mixture was stirred for 10 h, the
solvent was removed by evaporation to give a light
brown solid. The solid was extracted with chloroform,
and removal of solvent by evaporation provided a light
brown solid which was purified by using HPLC to give
o-dicyanobenzene (4 mg).
This work was partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for
Scientific Research and the 21st Century COE program
from the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and
Sports, Japan.
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