• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.1575-1578
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• 2011

Antimony trichloride (SbCl3) was demonstrated to be an effective catalyst for the cyanosilylation of a wide variety of carbonyl compounds under solvent-free conditions. The reactions proceeded smoothly at room temperature to afford the corresponding cyanosilylethers in good to excellent yields.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.27 no.10
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• pp.1638-1640
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• 2006

A variety of chiral cyanohydrins were readily prepared from aldehydes with TMSCN under the influence of chiral titanium complex formed in situ from $Ti(O^iPr)_4$/TADDOL(I) in the presence of $Ph_3PO$ as additive. The double activation method produces trimethylsilylethers in excellent yield (95%) with moderate enantiomeric excess.