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For questions about nitriles and isonitriles and their organic derivatives such as organic cyanates. Not to be used for inorganic cyanides or related structures; for those, one of the tags ionic-compounds or coordination-compounds will be appropriate.

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Mechanism for the intra-molecular exchange of an ester and a nitrile group

When the isolated product 4 is treated with sodium ethoxide in ethanol it rearranges to 5 as shown: My TA says that you need to start with a reverse Claisen at the ketone but I am not quite sure wh …
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What is a reasonable mechanism for the following reaction?

Hello all! I'm stuck on this one question and am not sure how to finish the mechanism. What I did was attack the alkyne first with the N farthest to the left. I'm not sure what do to after that thou …
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