Derivatives of the N-(pyrid-2-yl)amides of 3-aminocrotonic acid as chelating ligands

New chelating ligands, N-(pyrid-2-yl)amides of 4,4,4-trichloro-3-amino-2-cyanocrotonic acid have been synthesized from N-(pyrid-2-yl)amides of cyanoacetic acid and CCl₃CN. It has been demonstrated that by the action of butylthiodibutylborane they form binuclear boron chelate complexes. Analogous chelates have also been obtained from the N-(pyrid-2-yl)amides of acetoacetic and 4,4,4-trichloro-3-aminocrotonic acids.N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117913. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 974–979, April, 1992.