jimwig (Hive Bee)
05-20-03 01:15
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Here's some (i hope) good news about this hyterocyclic substance.....

US 1421743  Process for the manufacture of products from acetylene

US 3264307  Production of pyridines

US 3829429  Catalytic synthesis of substituted pyridines from acetylenes and nitriles

Cobalt-catalyzed pyridine synthese from alkynes and nitriles - Angew.Chem.Int.Engl. 17,505-515 (1978)

Cobalt-catalyzed synthesis of pyridiens from acetylenes and nitriles - Tetrahedron Letters No.36 p3383-3384 (1973)

First cobalt(I)- catalysed heterodyclotrimerization of theyne with nitriles to pyrides in water under mild conditions. - J.Chem.Soc. Chem. Comm. 1995 p179-180

Photo-assisted cocylization of acetylene and nitriles catalyzed by cobalt complexes at ambient temperature and normal pressure - Tetrahedorn letters vol30,no.10,pp1229-1232, 1989

and the site that started this whole search

http://www.ifok.uni-rostock.de/e/Science/Projects/bhelle/index-ResearchProject.htm

and the site that lead me to that

http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/index.php

I have been looking for this (potential) synth for a long time - just hope its realizable.