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The electrochemical reduction of compounds with a common formula R1(H)C=C(CN)R2, where R1 is C6H5, n-CH3OC6H4, n-FC6H4, or α-furyl; and R2 is CN or COOC2H5 is studied. The reduction of these compounds at a zinc cathode in the water–acetonitrile KH2PO4 solution yields both cyclic and linear hydrodimers. The relative yield of the linear hydrodimer increases with lowering the temperature and acetonitrile content in the catholyte. The obtained data well correlate with the suggestion that the cyclic products form in the catholyte bulk from linear hydrodimers.
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Tomilov, A.P., Chernykh, I.N. Electroreduction of Nitriles: The Reduction of Furfurylidene- and Benzylidenemalonodinitriles and Esters of Substituted 1-Cyanoacrylic Acids. Russian Journal of Electrochemistry 39, 1197–1200 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:RUEL.0000003445.59218.a3
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