Formyl cyanide. Synthesis by retro-ene cleavage of allyloxyacetonitrile and spectroscopic properties.

Yolande Vallee , Jean Louis Ripoll , Sylvie Lacombe-Lhoste (1) , Genevieve Pfister-Guillouzo

1 IPREM - Institut des sciences analytiques et de physico-chimie pour l'environnement et les materiaux

Formyl cyanide has been generated by retro-ene cleavage of allyloxyacetonitrile using flash-vacuum thermolysis, and characterized by its photoelectron, IR, and UV spectra; its addn. to methanimine at 170 K gives N-cyanomethylformamide. [on SciFinder(R)]

Keywords: formyl cyanide prepn spectra; thermolysis allyloxyacetonitrile

Domains: Chemical Sciences

Yolande Vallee, Jean Louis Ripoll, Sylvie Lacombe-Lhoste, Genevieve Pfister-Guillouzo. Formyl cyanide. Synthesis by retro-ene cleavage of allyloxyacetonitrile and spectroscopic properties.. Journal of Chemical Research, 1990, Copyright (C) 2017 American Chemical Society (ACS). All Rights Reserved., pp.40--1. ⟨hal-01586972⟩