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Microwave-assisted synthesis of isonitriles: a general simple methodology
Andrea Porcheddu1, Giampaolo Giacomelli, Margherita Salaris
1Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Sassari, via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari. anpo@uniss.it
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
|March 12, 2005
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] A facile conversion of formamides to isonitriles under very mild conditions and microwave irradiation is described. This simple and efficient method has been applied for the synthesis of both aliphatic and aromatic isonitriles in high yields.