In organic chemistry, hydrocyanation is a process for conversion of alkenes to nitriles. The reaction involves the addition of hydrogen cyanide and requires...

Industrially, the main methods for producing nitriles are ammoxidation and hydrocyanation. Both routes are green in the sense that they do not generate stoichiometric...

Succinonitrile is produced by the addition of hydrogen cyanide to acrylonitrile (hydrocyanation): CH2=CHCN + HCN → NCCH2CH2CN Hydrogenation of succinonitrile yields...

2004, the majority of adiponitrile is prepared by the nickel-catalysed hydrocyanation of butadiene, as discovered at DuPont, pioneered by William C. Drinkard...

such as acetone cyanohydrin, Bill Morandi and co-workers developed a hydrocyanation strategy using shuttle catalysis. In this example, they use isovaleronitrile...

by the use of a superior HCN acceptor, such as an aldehyde. In the hydrocyanation reaction of butadiene, the transfer is irreversible. Cassava tubers...

reacts with alkenes to give nitriles. The conversion, which is called hydrocyanation, employs nickel complexes as catalysts. RCH=CH2 + HCN → RCH2−CH2CN Four...

cyanide to each of the double bonds in butadiene. The process is called hydrocyanation. Butadiene is used to make the solvent sulfolane. Butadiene is also...

derivative was used as a phosphine ligand on nickel in a highly selective hydrocyanation reaction of butadiene. The reactivity of this catalyst is attributed...

reactions entail "HX additions" where X = silyl (hydrosilylation) and CN (hydrocyanation). Most large-scale industrial hydrogenations – margarine, ammonia,...

requiring a homogeneous catalyst include hydroformylation, hydrosilylation, hydrocyanation. For inorganic chemists, homogeneous catalysis is often synonymous with...

is usually handled as a solution in toluene. It is a reagent for the hydrocyanation of α,β-unsaturated ketones. Diethylaluminium cyanide was originally...

partial hydrogenation of itaconic acid over Raney nickel. Alternatively, hydrocyanation of ethyl crotonate affords an intermediate, which converts to 2-methylsuccinic...

Major industrial processes include hydrogenation, hydrosilylation, hydrocyanation, olefin metathesis, alkene polymerization, alkene oligomerization, hydrocarboxylation...

trimethylcyclohexanol. They are used to make specialty polyamides. Hydrocyanation gives the nitrile followed by reductive amination gives isophorone diamine...

reduction Hydroamination Hydration Hydroboration Hydrocarboxylation Hydrocyanation Hydrodesulfurization Hydroformylation Hydrogenation Hydrohalogenation...

Ni[P(OC6H5)3]4 + 2 COD Related complexes are homogeneous catalysts for the hydrocyanation of alkenes. It also forms a variety of Fe(0) and Fe(II) complexes such...

was an American industrial chemist and the inventor of the catalytic hydrocyanation process for making adiponitrile, a key intermediate in nylon production...

complex cyclobutanes. Asymmetric Hydrocyanation The RajanBabu group developed methodology in the area of hydrocyanation, leveraging the reaction of vinylarenes...

produced as a mixture of the cis- and trans-isomers. It is produced by hydrocyanation of isophorone followed by reductive amination and hydrogenation of the...

Diels–Alder reactions, the ene reaction, [2+2] cycloaddition reactions, hydrocyanation of aldehydes, and most notably, Sharpless epoxidations. The enantioselectivity...

reaction, a similar reaction for the synthesis of aromatic nitriles Hydrocyanation § With unsaturated carbonyl compounds, a similar reaction with enones...

ligands are components of industrial catalysts for hydroformylation and hydrocyanation. Diorganophosphites are derivatives of phosphorus(V) and can be viewed...

Conjugated carbonyls react with hydrogen cyanide to 1,4-keto-nitriles. See hydrocyanation of unsaturated carbonyls. In the Nagata reaction the cyanide source...

made commercially by a process developed by Du Pont for use in its hydrocyanation of butadiene to adiponitrile, a nylon intermediate. Du Pont produces...

prominent in numerous industrial processes including carbonylations, hydrocyanation, and the Shell higher olefin process. A popular reagent is...

in the first stage a mixture of pentenenitriles is obtained through hydrocyanation (using as catalyst Ni0-phosphine [PR3] or phosphite or phosphonite [P(OR)2R])...

ligands to catalysts is not limited to the process of hydroformylation. Hydrocyanation and hydrogenation reactions also implement phosphine-mediated catalysts...

bisulfite, followed by displacement of sulfite: A related reaction is hydrocyanation, which installs the elements of H-CN. Cyanation of arenes offers access...

{red}{\ce {R-C(O)CN}}}+{\ce {H2O}}} Acetyl cyanide is also prepared by hydrocyanation of ketene: CH 2 = C = O + H CN ⟶ H 3 C − C ( O ) CN {\displaystyle {\ce...