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Cyanoethylation is a process for the attachment of CH₂CH₂CN group to another organic substrate. The method is used in the synthesis of organic compounds.

Typically, cyanoethylation entails addition of protic nucleophiles to acrylonitrile, an unusually reactive Michael acceptor. Two new bonds form: C-H and C-Y (Y = carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, etc):

The ?-carbon atom

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