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Molybdenum hexacarbonyl activated with pyridine or morpholine catalyzes the condensation of malononitrile with ketones and aldehydes at 140 °C, which leads to alkylidenemalononitriles in 75–100% yield.
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Dedicated to Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences I. P. Beletskaya on the occasion of her anniversary.
Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 0682–0685, March, 2013.
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Khusnutdinov, R.I., Shchadneva, N.A., Mayakova, Y.Y. et al. Molybdenum hexacarbonyl-catalyzed condensation of malononitrile with ketones and aldehydes. Russ Chem Bull 62, 683–686 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11172-013-0092-3
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