Benzyl alcohol, reaction with acrylonitrile

Acetyloxindole, 40, 1 Aud chlorides, from acids and chloro vmylamuies, 41, 23 from cyanoacetic acid, 41, 5 from pentaacetylglucomc acid, 41, 80 Acrylamide, N benzyl, 42,16 Acrylonitrile, reaction with benzyl alcohol, 42, 16... 

N-Benzylacetamide, 43,18 n-Benzylacrylauide, 42,16 Benzyl alcohol, reaction with acrylonitrile, 42, 16... 

Benzophenone, conversion to ethyl /S-hydroxy-0,0-diphenylpro-pionate, 44, 57 Benzophenone oxime, 44, 52 Benzopyrazole, 42, 69 3-Benzoylpropionic add, condensation with benzaldehyde to give a-benzylidene-y-phenyl-A y -bu-tenolide, 43, 3 N-Benzylacetamide, 42,18 n-Benzyiacrylamide, 42,16 Benzyl alcohol, reaction with acrylonitrile, 42,16... 

The hydration of C-C multiple bonds is a reaction with prevalent industrial interest due to the usefulness of the products as chemical intermediates. The wool-Pd complex is an economical and highly active catalyst for hydration of olefins. It is very stable and can be reused several times without any remarkable change in the catalytic activity [73, 74]. In particular, to convert alkenes to the corresponding alcohols in excellent enantioselectivity, a new biopolymer-metal complex constituted of wool-supported palladium-iron or palladium-cobalt was prepared and used, such as allylamine to amino-2-propanoI, acrylonitrile to lactonitrile and unsaturated acids to a-hydroxycarboxylic acids [75-77]. The same catalytic system was also used for hydration of substituted styrenes to produce chiral benzyl alcohols. The simple and cleaner procedure, mild reaction conditions, high stability and recovery rate of catalyst made these catalytic systems an attractive and useful alternative to the existing methods (Scheme 37). 

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