ACETYLATION OF ALPHA-CYANO-OMICRON-TOLUNITRILE - A REINVESTIGATION AND CONVENIENT SYNTHESIS OF ISOQUINOLINES

Authors
Citation
Lw. Deady et Nh. Quazi, ACETYLATION OF ALPHA-CYANO-OMICRON-TOLUNITRILE - A REINVESTIGATION AND CONVENIENT SYNTHESIS OF ISOQUINOLINES, Synthetic communications, 25(3), 1995, pp. 309-320
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear
Journal title
ISSN journal
00397911
Volume
25
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
309 - 320
Database
ISI
SICI code
0039-7911(1995)25:3<309:AOA-AR>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
The product from the diacetylation of alpha-cyano-o-tolunitrile has no w been assigned as an isocoumarin derivative. This is readily transfor med into various 1-substituted-3-methylisoquinoline-4-carbonitriles by reaction with oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen nucleophiles.