Trimethylsilyl cyanide → 6,7-Dihydrobenzo[b]thiophene-4-carbonitrile

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To a suspension of zinc iodide (6.2 g) in acetonitrile (200 ml) were added 4-keto-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrothianaphthene (20 g) and trimethylsilylcyanide (18 ml) successively. The mixture was stirred at room temperature for 5 hours. The reaction mixture was concentrated. The residue was dissolved in pyridine (65 ml), followed by adding phosphryl chloride (15 ml) dropwise at room temperature. The mixture was refluxed for 30 minutes. The reaction mixture was cooled with ice and thereto was added dropwise isopropanol. The reaction mixture was poured onto ice water and extracted with ethyl acetate. The extract was washed by hydrochloric acid, water and a saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride successively, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and concentrated to give the title compound (17 g) having the following physical data.

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