| This volume covers the synthesis of compounds with three carbon-heteroatom bonds which include nitrile oxides, nitrile sulfides, nitrile imines, nitrilium salts, nitrile ylides, nitriles, phosphaalkynes, and carbon- and heteroatom-bound isocyanides. References to reviews on these specific functional groups are given in each section. Discussion
of each specific group is generally subdivided into methods that have been selected
as the most useful for the preparation of the product class or subclass in question.
Nitriles have unique properties, and, therefore, various transformations of nitriles
have been developed. Functional group transformations of nitriles to amines, imines, aldehydes,
ketones, amides, amidines, amidrazones, imidates, and carboxylic acids are
widely known, and these transformations have been described in sections of other volumes
within Science of Synthesis.
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