Patent ID: 7531682

Claim:
A process for hydrocyanating a hydrocarbon compound containing at least one ethylenic unsaturation by reacting said hydrocarbon in a liquid medium with hydrogen cyanide in the presence of a catalyst comprising a metallic element and an organic ligand, wherein the metallic element is selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, iron, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, platinum, copper, silver, gold, zinc, cadmium and mercury, and the organic ligand corresponds to formula I below: in which: T and T 1 represent a phosphorus atom, R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 , which are identical or different, represent a substituted or unsubstituted aryl radical having one or more rings, which are in fused form or not, optionally having one or more heteroatoms, U 1 , U 2 , U 3 and U 4 represent an oxygen atom, R 5 and R 6 , which are identical or different, represent a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, n is 0, and L 1 is S.