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Rapid cyanation of aryl iodides in water using microwave promotion
Riina K Arvela1, Nicholas E Leadbeater, Hanna M Torenius
1Department of Chemistry, King's College London, Strand, London, UK WC2R 2LS.
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
|August 21, 2003
Abstract:
We show that using water in conjunction with microwave heating it is possible to prepare aryl nitriles from the corresponding aryl iodides rapidly and in high yield without the need for a palladium catalyst.