ChemInform Abstract: Unexpected Formatio
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Donald Poirier; David Berthiaume; Roch P. Boivin
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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Unexpected Formation of O-Methoxycarbonyl Cyanohydrin Showing Potential as a Protective Group of Ketones. -Methyl cyanoformate (II) readily reacts with ketones (I) and (IV) in the presence of an amine base to yield O-methoxycarbonyl cyanohydrins. As easy hydrolysis of these cyanohydrins [cf. (V)] w