Yumei Zhang, Xi Du, Bin An
Feb 1, 2014
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Journal of Chemical Research
Abstract
Zinc mediated addition reaction of bromoacetonitrile with aryl aldehydes and ketones produces β-hydroxynitriles under solvent-free conditions. The valuable feature of the methodology are solvent-free and catalyst-free conditions and short reaction times (5 min).