• In organic chemistry, hydrocyanation is a process for conversion of alkenes to nitriles. The reaction involves the addition of hydrogen cyanide and requires...
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  • Industrially, the main methods for producing nitriles are ammoxidation and hydrocyanation. Both routes are green in the sense that they do not generate stoichiometric...
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    2004, the majority of adiponitrile is prepared by the nickel-catalysed hydrocyanation of butadiene, as discovered at DuPont, pioneered by William C. Drinkard...
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  • by the use of a superior HCN acceptor, such as an aldehyde. In the hydrocyanation reaction of butadiene, the transfer is irreversible. Cassava tubers...
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    Succinonitrile is produced by the addition of hydrogen cyanide to acrylonitrile (hydrocyanation): CH2=CHCN + HCN → NCCH2CH2CN Hydrogenation of succinonitrile yields...
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    cyanide to each of the double bonds in butadiene. The process is called hydrocyanation. Butadiene is used to make the solvent sulfolane. Butadiene is also...
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    reacts with alkenes to give nitriles. The conversion, which is called hydrocyanation, employs nickel complexes as catalysts. RCH=CH2 + HCN → RCH2−CH2CN Four...
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  • such as acetone cyanohydrin, Bill Morandi and co-workers developed a hydrocyanation strategy using shuttle catalysis. In this example, they use isovaleronitrile...
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    is usually handled as a solution in toluene. It is a reagent for the hydrocyanation of α,β-unsaturated ketones. Diethylaluminium cyanide was originally...
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    derivative was used as a phosphine ligand on nickel in a highly selective hydrocyanation reaction of butadiene. The reactivity of this catalyst is attributed...
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  • reactions entail "HX additions" where X = silyl (hydrosilylation) and CN (hydrocyanation). Most large-scale industrial hydrogenations – margarine, ammonia,...
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    requiring a homogeneous catalyst include hydroformylation, hydrosilylation, hydrocyanation. For inorganic chemists, homogeneous catalysis is often synonymous with...
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  • reduction Hydroamination Hydration Hydroboration Hydrocarboxylation Hydrocyanation Hydrodesulfurization Hydroformylation Hydrogenation Hydrohalogenation...
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    Major industrial processes include hydrogenation, hydrosilylation, hydrocyanation, olefin metathesis, alkene polymerization, alkene oligomerization, hydrocarboxylation...
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    partial hydrogenation of itaconic acid over Raney nickel. Alternatively, hydrocyanation of ethyl crotonate affords an intermediate, which converts to 2-methylsuccinic...
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  • complex cyclobutanes. Asymmetric Hydrocyanation The RajanBabu group developed methodology in the area of hydrocyanation, leveraging the reaction of vinylarenes...
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    trimethylcyclohexanol. They are used to make specialty polyamides. Hydrocyanation gives the nitrile followed by reductive amination gives isophorone diamine...
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    produced as a mixture of the cis- and trans-isomers. It is produced by hydrocyanation of isophorone followed by reductive amination and hydrogenation of the...
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    Ni[P(OC6H5)3]4 + 2 COD Related complexes are homogeneous catalysts for the hydrocyanation of alkenes. It also forms a variety of Fe(0) and Fe(II) complexes such...
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    ligands are components of industrial catalysts for hydroformylation and hydrocyanation. Diorganophosphites are derivatives of phosphorus(V) and can be viewed...
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    Conjugated carbonyls react with hydrogen cyanide to 1,4-keto-nitriles. See hydrocyanation of unsaturated carbonyls. In the Nagata reaction the cyanide source...
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  • reaction, a similar reaction for the synthesis of aromatic nitriles Hydrocyanation § With unsaturated carbonyl compounds, a similar reaction with enones...
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  • Diels–Alder reactions, the ene reaction, [2+2] cycloaddition reactions, hydrocyanation of aldehydes, and most notably, Sharpless epoxidations. The enantioselectivity...
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  • was an American industrial chemist and the inventor of the catalytic hydrocyanation process for making adiponitrile, a key intermediate in nylon production...
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    prominent in numerous industrial processes including carbonylations, hydrocyanation, and the Shell higher olefin process. A popular reagent is...
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    {red}{\ce {R-C(O)CN}}}+{\ce {H2O}}} Acetyl cyanide is also prepared by hydrocyanation of ketene: CH 2 = C = O + H CN ⟶ H 3 C − C ( O ) CN {\displaystyle {\ce...
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    ligands to catalysts is not limited to the process of hydroformylation. Hydrocyanation and hydrogenation reactions also implement phosphine-mediated catalysts...
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    made commercially by a process developed by Du Pont for use in its hydrocyanation of butadiene to adiponitrile, a nylon intermediate. Du Pont produces...
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    alkylated product. One example of the anion-binding mechanism is the hydrocyanation of imines catalyzed by Jacobsen's amido-thiourea catalyst depicted in...
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  • bisulfite, followed by displacement of sulfite: A related reaction is hydrocyanation, which installs the elements of H-CN. Cyanation of arenes offers access...
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