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A convenient method is proposed for the alkaline dehydration of aldoximes into nitriles in the presence of KOH in dimethyl sulfoxide at 140°.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 690–691, March, 1976.
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Trofimov, B.A., Mikhaleva, A.I., Korostova, S.E. et al. Base-catalyzed dehydration of aldoximes in dimethyl sulfoxide. Russ Chem Bull 25, 679–680 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01106685
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