Nucleofugal behavior of a β-shielded α-cyanovinyl carbanion

• Rudolf Knorr and
• Barbara Schmidt

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 3018–3024, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.281

• carbonyl addition; shielded acrylonitrile; Introduction A carbanionic fragment shows nucleofugal behavior on breaking its single-bond connection with a developing electrophilic center. Apart from deprotonation reactions or formation of a separated ion pair and other trivial examples, the (at least

• fission may also be used to generate different metal derivatives of the nucleofugal anions as equilibrium components. Fluoride-catalyzed, metal-free desilylation admitted carbonyl addition but blocked the retro-addition. Keywords: alkoxide fission; desilylation; fragmentation; retro-addition; reversible