Synthesis 2012; 44(13): 1993-1996
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1291123
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Synthesis of Cyanoacetyl Oxazolidinones

Kaitlyn M. Weeber
Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, S. San Francisco, CA 94080, USA, Fax: +1(650)7424943   Email: schwarz.jacob@gene.com
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Jacob B. Schwarz*
Genentech, Inc., 1 DNA Way, S. San Francisco, CA 94080, USA, Fax: +1(650)7424943   Email: schwarz.jacob@gene.com
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Publication History

Received: 22 March 2012

Accepted after revision: 16 April 2012

Publication Date:
25 May 2012 (online)


Abstract

Carefully controlled displacement of chiral chloroacetyl imides with cyanide afforded previously unreported cyanoacetimides in good overall yield. Knoevenagel condensation of the cyanoacetimides to furnish acrylonitriles was also demonstrated.

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