π-Complexes from acyl cyanides and lithium dimethylcuprate(I)

Steven H Bertz; Richard A Hardin; Michael D Murphy; Craig A Ogle

doi:10.1039/c3cc40602d

π-Complexes from acyl cyanides and lithium dimethylcuprate(I)

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Apr 14;49(29):3010-2. doi: 10.1039/c3cc40602d.

Authors

Steven H Bertz¹, Richard A Hardin, Michael D Murphy, Craig A Ogle

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA. sbertz1@uncc.edu

PMID: 23459603
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc40602d

Abstract

Rapid injection of pyruvonitrile or benzoyl cyanide into solutions of Me2CuLi in THF-d8 at -100 °C gave complexes that were stable at this temperature. 1D NMR with multiply labelled substrates ((13)C/(15)N) and 2D NMR ((1)H/(13)C) identified them as the first cuprate-carbonyl π-complexes.