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SUBMITTER: Fleming FF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2518779 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic letters 20061001 21
[reaction: see text] Sequential addition of three different Grignard reagents and pivaloyl chloride to 3-oxo-1-cyclohexene-1-carbonitrile installs four new bonds to generate a diverse array of cyclic enamides. Remarkably, formation of the C-magnesiated nitrile intermediate is followed by preferential acylation by pivaloyl chloride rather than consumption by an in situ Grignard reagent. Rapid N-acylation of the C-magnesiated nitrile generates an acyl ketenimine that reacts readily with Grignard r ...[more]