Zinc Chloride–Catalyzed Expeditious Route to Nitriles

Abstract

Zinc chloride has been found to be an excellent catalyst for a one-pot synthesis of nitriles from araldehydes and hydroxylammonium chloride under solvent-free conditions. The features of the present method are short reaction time, easy workup procedure, and good yields of the nitriles.

Keywords:

• Aldehydes
• hydroxyl ammonium hydrochloride
• microwave
• nitriles
• ZnCl₂