Excerpt from Organic Seminars, II Semester, 1957-1958
Compounds containing carbon atoms substituted by a large number of cyano groups (cyanocarbons) have been known in the literature for a long time. However, not until the work of Cairns, Middleton (l) gt al., had any systematic investigations of these compounds been made. Prior to that time, the cyanocarbons were not even recognized as a distinct group and as a result remained almost unnoticed.
The cyanocarbons represent a group of very reactive compounds, which not only provide routes to rather difficultly accessible compounds, but in themselves provide a series of unusual molecules.
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