Method for preparing aryl acetonitrile compound

Abstract

The invention provides a method for preparing an aryl acetonitrile compound, which obtaines an aryl acetonitrile compound by performing a decarboxylation coupling reaction of heating a decarboxylation coupling reagent and an electrophilic substrate in the presence of a palladium catalyst, a phosphine ligand, and an organic solvent. The method provided by the invention prevents the application of toxic reagents, and the reaction substrate is carboxylic acid or carboxylates, which is low in price, safe and stable, low in toxicity, and convenient for operation; the yield is high; the operation is easy; and the economy is good; compared with traditional synthetic methods reported before, the method has good compatibility for groups such as ester groups and carbonyls which are sensitive to alkali; the by-product is few; the atom economy is better than that of previous methods; the requirements for green chemistry are met; the catalytic amount is few; the catalytic efficiency is high; the separation is easy; the conversion rate is high; the yield is high; and the method has industrial and synthetic value.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of compound synthesis, in particular to a method for preparing aryl acetonitrile compounds. Background technique [0002] The traditional synthesis method of aryl acetonitrile compounds is to use benzyl halides and cyanides for nucleophilic substitution, but this method has low yields, uses highly toxic cyanides, and has relatively limited substrates. [0003] Currently, other methods reported include Palladium Catalyzed Reaction of ArylBromides with Cyanomethyltributyltin, Aromatic Cyanomethylation, Masanori KOSUGI, Masahiro ISHIGURO, Yoshikazu NEGISHI, HiroshiSANO, and Toshihiko MIGITA, CHEMISTRYLETTERS, pp.1511-1512, 1984. The method uses the tin reagent tributylacetonitrile stannane as a synthetic reagent, bromobenzene as an electrophilic substrate, palladium chloride as a catalyst, and tri-o-methylphenylphosphine as a phosphine ligand in the organic solvent m-xylene Heating at 120°C for 3 hours gave the product ...

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However, the tin reagent used in this method is toxic and pollutes the environment.

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