Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Oxidative 1,2-carboamination of alkenes with alkyl nitriles and amines toward γ-amino alkyl nitriles

  • Yan-Yun Liu,
  • Xu-Heng Yang,
  • Ren-Jie Song,
  • Shenglian Luo,
  • Jin-Heng Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14720
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Difunctionalization of readily available alkenes is a powerful method to quickly build molecular complexity. Here the authors report a three-component, oxidative carboamination between alkenes, alkyl nitriles and amines, producingγ-amino alkyl nitriles.