Originally posted by Dr. Beaker
I don't know if your suggestion might work, but I synthesized for my research 2-furanitrile from 2-furaldehyde by adding iodine to the reraction
mixture of the aldehyde and ammonia. the mechanism (I think it's oxidation of the imine by I2) was not stated in the article from which I addopted
this methode but it worked great. |