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Aldoximes are conventionally dehydrated to nitriles with acetic anhydride; see, e.g.: Org. Synth. Coll., 2, 622 (1943). Many other dehydration methods have been described, including: Triethyl orthoformate and acid: J. Org. Chem., 39, 3424 (1974). DMF - SOCl2: Tetrahedron Lett., 25, 3365 (1984). SOCl2 - DMAP: Synthesis, 472 (1983). DCC: Synth. Commun., 3, 101 (1973); Chem. Ber., 107, 1221 (1974). PPh3 - CBr4: Synth. Commun., 20, 2785 (1990). Trichloromethyl chloroformate (diphosgene): Synthesis, 129 (1990). For a further example, see Trichloroacetonitrile, A10565. See also Hydroxylamine hydrochloride, A15398 for one-pot conversion of aldehydes to nitriles.• Chlorination followed by elimination of HCl from the benzohydroxamoyl chloride leads, in situ, to the 1,3-dipole benzonitrile oxide. See, e.g.: Org. Synth. Coll., 5, 504 (1973).
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Conjugate addition of the oximate anion to ɑ?-unsaturated acetylenic carbonyl compounds gives ?-dicarbonyl compounds: J. Org. Chem., 59, 1219 (1994). For example with reaction scheme, see Methyl phenylpropiolate, B24587.•
For conversion to the isothiocyanate, see Thiourea, A12828.•
The oximate anion displaces activated aromatic nitro (or halogen) substituents. A second mole of oximate functions as base with elimination of benzonitrile and overall conversion of the nitro-compound to a phenol: J. Org. Chem., 39, 3343 (1974):
