Acrylonitrile, Vinyl cyanide

Acrylonitrile is a hydrogen acceptor. See also: crotononitrile

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Recent Literature

A silver-free palladium-catalyzed dehydrogenative phosphorylation of terminal alkynes with hydrogen phosphine oxides produces the corresponding value-added alkynylphosphine oxides in very good yields. This reaction could be easily conducted at gram scales without any decrease of efficiency.
J.-Q. Zhang, T. Chen, J.-S. Zhang, L.-B. Han, Org. Lett., 2017, 19, 4692-4695.