tert-BUTYL CHLORIDE → HCID 12415108, compound

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Reaction Steps

Friedel-Crafts alkylation reactions have been utilized by prior workers to synthesize 4-substituted-pyrrole-2-carbaldehyde compounds. For example, Anderson et.al. (Can. J. Chem. 56, 654-657 (1978)) reacted pyrrole-2-carbonitrile with t-butyl chloride in the presence of aluminum or gallium chloride catalysts, to obtain either 4-t-butyl-pyrrole-2-carbonitrile, or 5-t-butyl-pyrrole-2-carbonitrile. Each of the two isomers of the t-butyl-pyrrole-2-carbonitriles were then reduced to the corresponding aldehydes.

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