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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Ketenes from N-(2-Pyridyl)amides

Carsten Plüg A , Hussein Kanaani A and Curt Wentrup A B
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A School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia.

B Corresponding author. Email: wentrup@uq.edu.au

Australian Journal of Chemistry 68(4) 687-692 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH14714
Submitted: 15 December 2014  Accepted: 15 January 2015   Published: 12 February 2015

Abstract

Methoxycarbonylketene 4a, methoxycarbonyl(methyl)ketene 4b, chloroketene 4c, cyanoketene 4d, diphenylketene 4e, and 2-pyridylketene 4f have been generated by flash vacuum thermolysis of the corresponding 2-pyridylacetamide derivatives 3af and isolated in Ar matrices for FT-IR spectroscopic characterisation. The N-(2-pyridyl)-2-pyridylacetamide 3f yielded 2-pyridyl isocyanate in addition to 2-pyridylketene.


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