References

Citation our group selected:

Katritzky, A. R.; Akue-Gedu, R.; Vakulenko, A. V. Arkivoc 2007, iii, 5−12.

Three papers we chose that cited this:

1. Katritzky, A.R.; Rachwal, S. Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 1564–1610.

This paper is very similar to the source of the citation (it is written by one of the same authors). It is about benzotriazole chemistry and all that encompasses (not only cyanobenzotriazole uses like in the cited paper or in our SSG section’s paper). The main author (Katritzky) has done quite a lot of work with this type of chemistry. This paper focuses more on the synthesis of heterocycles (cyclic molecules of two or more types of atom in cyclic skeleton), as a result of benzotriazole, however it does discuss cyanobenzotriazole like in the cited paper and is relevant to our chosen reaction because of this.

2. Anbarasan, P.; Neumann, H.; Beller, M. Chem. Eur. J. 2010, 16, 4725-4728.

This paper is more relevant to our cited paper as it is about electrophilic cyanation. It uses cyanobenzimidazole to participate in a wide array of electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS) reactions. It also utilizes Grignard reagents to catalyze the reactions by  making nucleophilic carbon groups that will attack the cyano groups in the synthesis of benzonitriles.

3. Uhde, M.; Anwar, M. U.; Ziegler, T. Synth. Commun. 2008, 38, 881-888.

This paper also deals with benzotriazoles and their properties of catalyzing many reagents. Many reactions in the paper use cyanobenzotriazole, as in our cited paper, in addition to using THF as a solvent like in our original mechanism. The difference in this paper is it goes into more detail with enamine intermediates.