Pent-2-enenitrile → Methyl formate

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The electrolysis was discontinued after 10 h, when 64% of tetramethoxyethane and 76% of pentenenitrile had been converted. Trimethyl orthoformate, methyl formate and formaldehyde dimethyl acetal had formed at the anode in a ratio of 1:0.17:0.1. The main products at the cathode were 3.4-diethyladiponitrile, pentanenitrile and 3-methoxypentanenitrile in a ratio of 1:0.3:0.8. A distillative workup provided the hydrodimerization 20 product of pentenenitrile, namely 3.4-diethyladiponitrile, in 97% purity.

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