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Beckmann rearrangement of oximes under very mild conditions
Lidia De Luca1, Giampaolo Giacomelli, Andrea Porcheddu
1Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Via Vienna 2, I-07100 Sassari, Italy.
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
|August 17, 2002
Abstract:
A variety of ketoximes, easily prepared from the corresponding ketones, undergo the Beckmann rearrangement upon treatment with 2,4,6-trichloro[1,3,5]triazine in N,N-dimethylformamide at room temperature in excellent yields. This procedure can be applied to aldoximes for obtaining the corresponding nitriles.