4-CHLORO-3-METHYL-3-BUTENONITRILE AND RELATED COMPOUNDS
4-CHLORO-3-METHYL-3-BUTENONITRILE AND RELATED COMPOUNDS
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01209a025
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发表时间:
1946-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
CLOKE, JB
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作者:
MOORADIAN, A;CLOKE, JB
Several years ago, Stehr2 working in this Labo-ratory found that sodium cyanide will react with Eastman Kodak Co. practical 1, 3-dichloroisobutane, 8 better named 1, 3-dichloro-2-methylpro-pane, C1CH2CH (CH3) CH2C1 (I) to give y-chloro-d-methylbutyromtrile C1CH2CH (CH3) CH2CN and a higher boiling product. He also found that cuprous cyanide will react with the so-called dichloroisobutane to give three unexpected nitriles, viz., a liquid chloronitrile (A) different from the y-chloro-fi-methylbutyronitrile, a solid dicyanide (B) and a liquid dicyanide (C).The work described in the present paper has led to the identification of the chloronitrile (A) as 4-chloro-3-methyl-3-butenonitrile, C1CH= C-(CH3) CH2CN (VI), exclusive of stereochemical considerations. It is now clear that this com-pound (VI) originated by the interaction of the cuprous chloride with l, 3-dichloro-2-methyl-l-propene, C1CH= C (CH3) CH2C1,(V), an unsus-pected impurity in the sharply boiling fraction of the ‘‘1, 3-dichloroisobutane” which was used. These considerations led to the mainsynthetic work described in this paper. 1, 3-Dichloro-2-methyl-1-propene (V).—Compound (V) was first described by Pogorshelski. 4 More recently, Rogers and Nelson6 reportedthe preparation of a mixture consisting of 3-chloro-2-chloromethyl-1-propene, H2C= C (CH2C1) 2 (XX), 6 and the cis and trans isomers of (V) by the pyrolysis of l, 2, 3-trichloro-2-methylpropane (II). The same product (V) has also been prepared by the chlorination of isobutylene and methallyl chloride7 and by the dehydration of 1, 3-dichloro-2-methyl-2-propanol. 8