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SUBMITTER: Zhang Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2561219 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Organic letters 20060901 19
A new method for the synthesis of nitriles is described. As a complement to the classic cyanation of aryl halides using cyanide sources and a transition metal catalyst, the palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling of thiocyanates with boronic acids in the presence of copper(I) thiophene-2-carboxylate (CuTC) affords nitriles in good to excellent yields. ...[more]