Singh Anupam Kumar, Chauhan Shivani Singh, Bhadra Sukalyan
Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Division, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, G.B. Marg, Bhavnagar, Gujarat 364002, India.
Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Sep 26;59(77):11544-11547. doi: 10.1039/d3cc02743k.
The copper-catalyzed α-oxygenation of aryl benzyl ketones is merged with a unique water/O-induced release of cyanide ions from KFe(CN) and a benzil-cyanide reaction. This strategy gives expedient access to cyanohydrin esters starting directly from broadly accessible aryl benzyl ketones. The cyanide release strategy was further integrated with a copper catalyzed oxygenation-decarbonylation sequence to produce cyanohydrin esters from 1,3-diketones.