“…Our first trial on the anodic cyanation of p-anisyltrimethylsilanes, which was easily prepared via the reaction of 4-bromomagnesiumanisole and chlorotrimethylsilane, gave predominantly a mixture of the direct-substituted product (2), in which a hydrogen atom was substituted with a cyano group, and the ipso-substituted product (3) in which the silyl group was substituted with a cyanide anion despite the presence of the bulky trimethylsilyl group (Scheme 1). 23 The substituents on the silyl group (1a and 1b) and the presence of different alkoxyl groups (1b and 1d) were important factors that influenced the selectivity and composition of the products, as shown in Table 1.…”