B. Batanero, C. Sánchez-Sánchez, V. Montiel
Apr 1, 2003
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Electrochemistry Communications
Abstract
Abstract The electrochemical cyanomethylation of benzophenone in acetonitrile was investigated as an interesting way of synthesizing high yield of 3-phenylcinnamonitrile (55% for 50% of theoretical circulated charge). This synthetic method uses the benzophenone radical-anion as a strong electrogenerated base to abstract a proton from the solvent and obtain the nucleophile − CH 2 CN. This anion is capable of yielding cyanomethylated products very easily. In our case the reaction of this anion with benzophenone yields 3-phenylcinnamonitrile in a father–son like mechanism.