Nitroalkenes as surrogates for cyanomethylium species in a one-pot synthesis of non-symmetric diarylacetonitriles†
Abstract
Nitroalkenes were used as synthetic equivalents of the cyanomethylium cation in a modular, one-pot synthesis of 2-(3-indolyl)acetonitriles and 2,2-diarylacetonitriles involving electrophilic functionalization of aromatic and heteroaromatic C–H bond.