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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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Why do SN2 reactions of alkyl halides proceed differently with KCN and AgCN?

The different reactivities of $\ce{KCN}$ and $\ce{AgCN}$ with alkyl halide, giving nitriles and isonitriles, respectively, has often been cited as a prime example of Pearson’s hard and soft acids and bases …
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Conversion of isonitrile (isocyanide) group into cyanide group?

Isonitriles will, given the correct conditions, spontaneously transform into nitriles. …
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