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Questions tagged [nitriles]

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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Amidine synthesis from nitrile and dimethylamine using n-Buli as a base

I am making LiNMe2 using n-Buli (5.5 equiv.) and dimethylamine (5.0 equiv), -15 ºC, dry THF and under nitrogen atmosphere. I have been doing the reaction and I can observe conversion of starting ...
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