The reaction between a transition metal carbonyl compound, L(n)MCO, and Li[Me(3)SiNR] yields the corresponding isocyanide derivative, L(n)MCNR, thereby providing a new route to transition metal isocyanide compounds that does not require the use of free isocyanides as reagents.

Z. Naturforsch. 41 a, 1302-1306 (1986); received August 7, 1986 The microwave ground state spectra of tert.-butyl isocyanide, (CH3)3CNC, and phenyl isocyanide, C6H 5NC, have been measured by microwave Fourier transform spectroscopy in the region 5.0 to 8.0 GHz and analysed for nuclear quadrupole hyperfine splitting due to ‘*N. The nuclear quadrupole coupling constants are shown to be in accorda...

In this paper are reported the results of a comprehensive mechanistic study of nucleophilic attack by amines on coordinated isocyanides in square—planar Pd(II) complexes, leading to amino—carbene complexes. The reactivity pattern that has emerged displays several facets: (i) whatever the details, in this stepwise mechanism the most prominent step always involves direct attack of the amine nitro...

The reactive intermediate generated by the addition of tert-butyl and 1,1,3,3-tetramethyl butyl isocyanide and cyclohexyl isocyanide to dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylate was trapped by 3-hydroxy pyridine to produce highly functionalized 4H-chromenes in fairly good  yields

The reactive intermediate generated by the addition of tert-butyl and 1,1,3,3-tetramethyl butyl isocyanide and cyclohexyl isocyanide to dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylate was trapped by 3-hydroxy pyridine to produce highly functionalized 4H-chromenes in fairly good  yields.

Treatment of Ni(NCS)2(PMe2Ph)2 with organic isocyanides CN-R gave five-coordinate isocyanide Ni(II) complexes, Ni(CN-R)(NCS)2(PMe2Ph)2 (R = C6H3-2,6-Me2 (1), t-Bu (2)). Interestingly, the corresponding reaction of Ni(NCS)2(P(n-Pr)3)2 with 2 equiv. of CN-t-Bu gave an unusual compound, which exists as an ion pair of the trigonal bipyramidal cation [Ni(P(n-Pr)3)2(CN-t-Bu)3]2+ (3) and the dinuclear...

A palladium-catalyzed three-component reaction of bis-(2-iodoaryl)carbodiimide, isocyanide, and amine gives rise to quinazolino[3,2-a]quinazolines and related compounds in good yields. Multi-bonds are formed in one pot through nucleophilic attack, isocyanide insertion, and C-N coupling during the reaction process.

The biosynthetic origins of the isocyanide and isothiocyanate functional groups in the marine sponge metabolites diisocyanoadociane (1), 9-isocyanopupukeanane (10) and 9-isothiocyanatopupukeanane (11) are probed by the use of [(14)C]-labelled precursor experiments. Incubation of the sponge Amphimedon terpenensis with [(14)C]-labelled thiocyanate resulted in radioactive diisocyanoadociane (1) in...