Action des phenylacetonitriles α-substitues sur les tetrahalomethanes en milieu basique: Mecanismes de l'halogenation et de la duplication

Carbanions of substituted phenylacetonitriles are halogenated by carbon tetrachloride or carbon tetrabromide, and also converted into symmetrically-substituted succinonitriles. The halogenation occurs via an ionic process, and the formation of succinonitriles via a radical process, essentially a no-chain mechanism in the case of diphenylacetonitrile anion, confirmed by the course of the reaction of p-nitrobenzylchloride on the diphenylacetonitrile anion.