Sodium Cyanide → HCID 21431785, compound

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α-Bromo-m-tolylcyclopropyl ketone (10 g) in dry dimethylformamide (20 ml) was added dropwise during 1 hour to a stirred suspension of sodium cyanide (1.96 g) in dry dimethylformamide (40 ml). The mixture was cooled to 10° during the addition and for a further hour, then left to stand at 20° for a further 2 hours and poured onto ice (140 g). The mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate (3× 60 ml) and the extracts were combined, washed with water, dried over magnesium sulphate, filtered and evaporated to give a brown oil.

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