Abstract The production of high-valued organonitrogen chemicals, especially N-heterocycles, requires artificial N 2 fixation accompanied by the consumption fossil resources. To avoid use these energy- and resource-intensive processes, we develop a sustainable strategy to convert nitrogen-rich animal biomass into N-heterocycles through thermochemical conversion process (TCP) under atmospheric pr...

The first Ritter reaction of 3-substituted 3-hydroxyoxindoles with nitriles, catalyzed by HClO(4), is developed, which enables the synthesis of 3-substituted 3-aminooxindoles in good to excellent yield with rich diversity.

Two molar amounts of arynes were found to couple with nitriles via carbon-carbon sigma-bond cleavage, assembling diverse diarylmethane skeletons in a straightforward manner.

A novel strategy for the direct synthesis of N-alkylated amides from nitriles, aldoximes and alcohols was proposed and accomplished in the presence of a Cp*Ir complex.

Mesoporous ZnS nanospheres is a novel heterogeneous catalyst for synthesis of 5-substituted 1H-tetrazoles from various nitriles and sodium azide with excellent catalytic performance.

A de novo palladium carbon-catalyzed synthesis of trisubstituted nicotinonitriles from easily synthesized homopropagylic or homoallylic aromatic alcohols in the presence of nitriles has been explored. The mechanism proceeds with an interesting generation of a Pd(II)-C palladacycle followed by an oxidative aromatization to generate the pyridine core. The pyridine core is generated with a notewor...

The enantioselective organocatalytic Strecker-type reaction of aliphatic N,N-dialkylhydrazones is presented. Using trimethylsilyl cyanide (TMSCN) as the cyanide source, the reaction can be efficiently catalyzed by a tert-leucine-derived bifunctional thiourea to afford the corresponding hydrazino nitriles in good to excellent yields (50-96%) and moderate to good enantioselectivities, up to 86% e...

Crossed-beam experiments on the reactions of cyano CN(X2Σ+) and ethinyl C2H(X 2Σ+) radicals with the unsaturated hydrocarbons acetylene, ethylene, methylacetylene allene and benzene have been carried out under single-collision conditions to investigate synthetic routes to form nitriles, polyynes and substituted allenes in hydrocarbon-rich atmospheres of planets and their moons. All reactions we...

The nickel(0) fragment [(dippe)Ni] has been found to react with a variety of aromatic nitriles. Initial pi-coordination to the C=C and Ctbd1;N bonds of 2-cyanoquinoline is found to lead ultimately to C-CN oxidative addition. 3-Cyanoquinoline reacts similarly, although no eta(2)-CN complex is observed. 2-, 3-, And 4-cyanopyridines react initially to give eta(2)-nitrile complexes that then lead t...