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REL Webinar: Using Teacher Feedback in School Leader Evaluations

The goal of the webinar is to expand local and state leaders’ knowledge of teacher survey instruments to enhance the evaluation of school leaders.




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Webinar: Preparing Leaders to Make a Difference for Students and Schools

Recognizing that school leaders play a critical role in school performance, states and districts are rethinking how they prepare principals. But this retooling of preparation programs raises a number of important questions: What skills do new principals need? How can we identify aspiring principals with the potential to develop those competencies? And how can we use these insights to improve the training of leaders at all levels of the system, from teacher leaders to principal supervisors?




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Serving Medicaid Beneficiaries Who Need Long-Term Services and Supports: Better Outcomes at Lower Costs

In the past two decades, many federal and state Medicaid initiatives have been designed to rebalance the long-term services and supports (LTSS) system by increasing access to home and community-based services (HCBS) in order to reduce the use of expensive institutional care.




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Understanding the Power of Long-Term Impact Evaluations

International development programs are designed to make lasting and positive improvements in the health, education, and income of disadvantaged people around the world.




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Progress Together: Becoming Data Driven

Mathematica brought together leaders from a variety of sectors to discuss the challenges of becoming data driven and offer action-oriented, accessible advice on how organizations can take their first steps, or their next steps, to progress together.




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A Framework for Educational Equity and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

This webinar defined educational inequity and discussed its implications. It included a brief introduction to culturally responsive pedagogy and what broader systemic changes may be necessary to implement equity and culturally responsive pedagogy.




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Seeing Is Believing: Visualizing Data for Evidence-Based Policymaking

While many industries have increasingly turned to data science to make informed business decisions, social service organizations and government agencies have been slower to fully embrace the potential of current and emerging data science methods. The challenges are real.




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Research and Practice in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and How to Sustain Systemic Changes

This webinar explored research on culturally responsive pedagogy and what is known about its effectiveness.




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Implementing District and School Policies and Practices to Support Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

This webinar explored how a school and district have approached the challenge of implementing culturally responsive practice. It elaborated on programs, policies, and practices that were implemented to support efforts to achieve equity and use culturally responsive pedagogy.




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Developing Culturally Responsive Educators in Pre-Service Programs

This webinar explored how best to prepare educators to implement culturally responsive pedagogy, including and exploration of how programs train future teachers and school administrators and what changes programs may need to consider to effectively prepare these educators.




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Innovations in Medicare ACOs’ Approaches to Care Delivery Improvement

Hear from ACOs about their approaches to improving care delivery, and from CMS about new policy opportunities.




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Join Us and Partners for a Grantmakers for Education Webinar—Making the Case: Establishing Evidence to Support Practitioners, Strategy, and Outcomes

Interested in learning how to build more evidence into philanthropic practice? Join Mathematica, The Wallace Foundation, and the Afterschool Alliance for a Grantmakers for Education webinar.




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Does School Choice Leave Anyone Behind?

At Mathematica, we’re uncovering evidence about the effects of school choice policies on nonparticipating students and schools. Learn more about our systematic review, which covers two decades of relevant research and evaluation.




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Sign Up for a Free Webinar on Improving Attendance in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten

Chronic absenteeism is particularly high in the early grades, compared with elementary and middle school. For a young child to succeed and develop a strong foundation for learning, he or she must attend school regularly.




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SSI Youth Solutions Project: Informational Webinar for Applicants on the Call for Policy Proposals

Mathematica is seeking innovative ideas on how to help youth who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) improve their employment outcomes as they transition to adulthood.




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Evidence for Educators by Educators: New Approaches to Building Evidence for Continuous Improvement

Join us for a webinar for a discussion about the role of evidence in a continuous improvement process and how a free, online platform—the Evidence to Insights Coach—can help educators generate the evidence they need when they need it.




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Health Affairs Briefing on the Affordable Care Act Turns 10

The March 2020 issue of Health Affairs, “The Affordable Care Act Turns 10,” offers must-read analyses of the ACA.




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Q-CCIIT: Measuring the Quality of Caregiver–Child Interactions: Free Webinar for Early Childhood Professionals

Mathematica will launch a groundbreaking new quality measurement observation tool, now available to the early childhood community (including program administrators, professional development providers, researchers, and others) during a webinar.




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Free Webinar: How States, Districts, and REL Mid-Atlantic Partner to Create New Diagnostic Measures Using Existing Data

This webinar highlights three research-to-practice partnerships between state and local policymakers and the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic to address this challenge, connecting educators and policymakers with researchers who provide analytic support and help education agencies build capacity to conduct their own analyses.




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Learning Remotely in the Age of COVID-19: Lessons from Evidence and Concerns for Equity

The spread of COVID-19 has caused schools and districts across the country to shutter their doors. States, districts, and schools must suddenly and unexpectedly grapple with the new reality of providing a quality education to every student remotely.




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Refining Your Remote Learning Strategies Using a Data-Driven Approach: The Evidence to Insights Coach

With school buildings closed by COVID-19, schools and districts across the country are rapidly (and sometimes frantically) transitioning to remote learning.




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Supporting Pre-K to Grade 3 Children and Their Learning Partners at Home

This webinar will review the research on the home and parenting characteristics that support young children’s learning.




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Macrocyclization of 3-Triflyloxybenzynes with Tetrahydrofuran via Anionic Thia-Fries Rearrangement

Chem. Commun., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00135J, Communication
Chaorong Qi, Ruixiang Cheng, Wenfang Xiong, Lu Wang, Yanwei Ren, Huanfeng Jiang
A novel and uncommon macrocyclization reaction between 3-triflyloxybenzynes and tetrahydrofuran has been developed for the first time, providing a direct method for the synthesis of a range of functionalized 19-membered...
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Correction: Preparation of carbon dots by non-focusing pulsed laser irradiation in toluene

Chem. Commun., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC90181D, Correction
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Huiwu Yu, Xiangyou Li, Xiaoyan Zeng, Yongfeng Lu
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A fentanyl vaccine constructed upon opsonizing antibodies specific for the Galα1-3Gal epitope

Chem. Commun., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC02107E, Communication
Jiaxing Wang, Beverly A Ellis, Bin Zhou, Lisa M. Eubanks, Steven Blake, Kim D Janda
A double conjugation strategy was implemented to produce an anti-fentanyl vaccine, which was predicated upon preformed-antibody-assisted antigen presentation. The new vaccine was found to reduce the psychoactive effects of fentanyl...
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Simultaneous co-assembly of fenofibrate and ketoprofen peptide for the dual-targeted treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4922-4925
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00513D, Communication
Zhongyan Wang, Chuanrui Ma, Yuna Shang, Lijun Yang, Jing Zhang, Cuihong Yang, Chunhua Ren, Jinjian Liu, Guanwei Fan, Jianfeng Liu
An ingenious co-assembled nanosystem based on fenofibrate and ketoprofen peptide for the dual-targeted treatment of NAFLD by reducing hepatic lipid accumulation and inflammatory responses.
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Photochemical α-carboxyalkylation of tryptophols and tryptamines via C–H functionalization

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4930-4933
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00847H, Communication
Zhiqiang Pan, Yuchang Liu, Fengchi Hu, Qinglong Liu, Wenbin Shang, Chengfeng Xia
A process for the α-carboxyalkylation of tryptophols and tryptamines by the functionalization of C–H bonds under visible light irradiation has been developed.
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On-surface synthesis of planar acenes via regioselective aryl–aryl coupling

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4890-4893
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01043J, Communication
Lin Feng, Tao Wang, Hongxing Jia, Jianmin Huang, Dong Han, Wenzhao Zhang, Honghe Ding, Qian Xu, Pingwu Du, Junfa Zhu
The reaction of 2,2'-dibromo-biphenyl (DBBP) on a Ag(111) surface leads to the generation of planar dibenzo[e,l]pyrene, in contrast to the nonplanar saddle-shaped tetraphenylene formed in solution.
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Noncovalent structural locking of thermoresponsive polyion complex micelles, nanowires, and vesicles via polymerization-induced electrostatic self-assembly using an arginine-like monomer

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4954-4957
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00427H, Communication
Qingqing Zhao, Qizhou Liu, Chao Li, Lei Cao, Lei Ma, Xiyu Wang, Yuanli Cai
The noncovalent locking of nanostructured thermoresponsive polyion complexes can be achieved via polymerization-induced electrostatic self-assembly (PIESA) using an arginine-like cationic monomer.
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Graphene-modulated assembly of zinc phthalocyanine on BiVO4 nanosheets for efficient visible-light catalytic conversion of CO2

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4926-4929
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01518K, Communication
Ji Bian, Jiannan Feng, Ziqing Zhang, Jiawen Sun, Mingna Chu, Ling Sun, Xin Li, Dongyan Tang, Liqiang Jing
Graphene-modulated ZnPc/BiVO4 Z-scheme heterojunctions for efficient visible-light catalytic CO2 conversion are achieved by increasing the optimized amount of highly dispersed ZnPc.
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Synthesis of chiral α-substituted α-amino acid and amine derivatives through Ni-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4934-4937
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01220C, Communication
Gongyi Liu, Xianghe Zhang, Heng Wang, Hengjiang Cong, Xumu Zhang, Xiu-Qin Dong
Efficient Ni-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of cyclic N-sulfonyl ketimino esters and ketimines was successfully developed to prepare a series of chiral α-monosubstituted α-amino acid derivatives and amine derivatives with excellent results.
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Nonlinear organic–inorganic halide hybrids containing unprecedented linear [MIX2]− coordination units and quasi-two-dimensional lone pairs

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4894-4897
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01532F, Communication
Qi Wu, Xian Liu, Yeshuang Du, Chunlin Teng, Fei Liang
A first example of monovalent-metal-based hybrid halides [N(CH3)4]MCl2 (M = Ga+, In+) with zero-dimensional configuration containing unprecedented linear [GaCl2]/[InCl2] units have been designed and synthesized.
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Structural elucidation of the degradation mechanism of nickel-rich layered cathodes during high-voltage cycling

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4886-4889
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00327A, Communication
Open Access
Jing Lai, Jun Zhang, Zuowei Li, Yao Xiao, Weibo Hua, Zhenguo Wu, Yanxiao Chen, Yanjun Zhong, Wei Xiang, Xiaodong Guo
A splitting of two O3 phases, rather than the often observed O1 phases in the conventional LiCoO2 electrode, was discovered in the LiNi0.85Co0.10Mn0.05O2 at high-voltage region (>4.6 V) by in situ high-resolution synchrotron radiation diffraction.
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Fe3Pt intermetallic nanoparticles anchored on N-doped mesoporous carbon for the highly efficient oxygen reduction reaction

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4898-4901
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00895H, Communication
Danke Chen, Zhuoyi Li, Yu Zhou, Xu Ma, Hanqing Lin, Wen Ying, Xinsheng Peng
N-Doped mesoporous carbon catalysts dispersed with Fe3Pt intermetallic nanoparticles, exhibiting excellent ORR performance, were synthesised by direct pyrolysis of Pt–Fe co-functionalized ZIF-8.
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A heteroleptic diradical Cr(III) complex with extended spin delocalization and large intramolecular magnetic exchange

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4906-4909
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00548G, Communication
Xiaozhou Ma, Elizaveta A. Suturina, Mathieu Rouzières, Fabrice Wilhelm, Andrei Rogalev, Rodolphe Clérac, Pierre Dechambenoit
Ligand-based successive reductions in a heteroleptic Cr(III) complex give rise to intended extremely strong metal–radical magnetic interactions.
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Unexpected persistence of cis-bridged chains in compressed AuF3

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4902-4905
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01374A, Communication
Dominik Kurzydłowski, Serhiy Kobyakov, Zoran Mazej, Sharad Babu Pillai, Brahmananda Chakraborty, Prafulla K. Jha
Raman scattering measurements and DFT calculations indicate that solid AuF3 adopts a metastable cis-bridge structure upon room-temperature compression.
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Stepwise assembly of nanoclusters guided by DNA origami frames with high-throughput

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4918-4921
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00274G, Communication
Xiaodong Xin, Lihui Wang, Kaiwei Wang, Lizhi Dai, Hai Cao, Zheng Li, Ye Tian
We propose two strategies to construct nanoclusters efficiently with explicit positions of nanoparticles by the surface-encoded method.
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Oxyanion transport across lipid bilayers: direct measurements in large and giant unilamellar vesicles

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4910-4913
DOI: 10.1039/C9CC09888G, Communication
Krzysztof M. Bąk, Bartjan van Kolck, Krystyna Maslowska-Jarzyna, Panagiota Papadopoulou, Alexander Kros, Michał J. Chmielewski
A simple, carbazole-based dithioamide receptor transports a variety of biologically relevant anions through lipid bilayers, as shown by direct fluorescent assays in LUVs and GUVs.
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CRISPR/Cas-directed programmable assembly of multi-enzyme complexes

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4950-4953
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01174F, Communication
Samuel Lim, Jiwoo Kim, Yujin Kim, Dawei Xu, Douglas S. Clark
We describe a versatile CRISPR/Cas-based strategy to construct precisely organized, scaffolded multi-enzyme systems with improved productivity.
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A dual-round signal amplification strategy for colorimetric/photoacoustic/fluorescence triple read-out detection of prostate specific antigen

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4942-4945
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01086C, Communication
Chao Jiang, Yan Huang, Ting He, Peng Huang, Jing Lin
A colorimetric/fluorescence/photoacoustic triple read-out detection of prostate specific antigen (PSA) was developed by using a silica coated Au@Ag core–shell nanorod (denoted Au@Ag@SiO2) based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) system.
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The design of hypercrosslinked polymers from benzyl ether self-condensing compounds and external crosslinkers

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4938-4941
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01002B, Communication
Robert T. Woodward
Hypercrosslinked polymers were produced via the self-condensation of benzyl ether compounds, providing a one-component route to highly porous networks and significant reductions in catalyst waste compared to conventional routes.
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Atomically thin TiO2 nanosheets synthesized using liquid metal chemistry

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4914-4917
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01456G, Communication
Turki Alkathiri, Nripen Dhar, Azmira Jannat, Nitu Syed, Md Mohiuddin, Manal M. Y. A. Alsaif, Robi S. Datta, Kibret A. Messalea, Bao Yue Zhang, Muhammad Waqas Khan, Aaron Elbourne, Naresh Pillai, Jian Zhen Ou, Ali Zavabeti, Torben Daeneke
The library of two-dimensional materials is limited since many transition metal compounds are not stratified and can thus not be easily isolated as nanosheets. Liquid metal-based synthesis provides a new approach to overcome this limitation.
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A highly active Rh1/CeO2 single-atom catalyst for low-temperature CO oxidation

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4870-4873
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00230E, Communication
Bing Han, Tianbo Li, Junying Zhang, Chaobin Zeng, Hiroaki Matsumoto, Yang Su, Botao Qiao, Tao Zhang
Rh1/CeO2 SAC is highly active for CO oxidation, which exhibits a high TOF of 0.41 s−1via the Mars–van Krevelen mechanism.
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New insight derived from a two-compartment cell: electrochemical behavior of FeF3 positive electrode

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4878-4881
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01162B, Communication
Kazuki Yoshii, Noboru Taguchi, Takeshi Miyazaki, Masahiro Shikano, Hikari Sakaebe
A designed two-compartment cell revealed the degradation mechanism and an essentially effective additive for the FeF3 composite electrode.
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Conformational control of N-methyl-N,N'-diacylhydrazines by noncovalent carbon bonding in solution

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4874-4877
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00943A, Communication
Jugal Kishore Rai Deka, Biswajit Sahariah, Kalpita Baruah, Arun Kumar Bar, Bani Kanta Sarma
Unusual N(amide)⋯C–X noncovalent carbon bonding interactions stabilize the transcis (tc) amide bond rotamers of N-methyl-N,N'-diacylhydrazines over the expected transtrans (tt) rotamers in solution.
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Beyond temperature: controlling collagen fibrillogenesis under physiological conditions via interaction with cucurbit[7]uril

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4946-4949
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01444C, Communication
Qiuping Xie, Delong Hou, Jinming Chang, Zhou Xu, Qi Zeng, Zhonghui Wang, Yi Chen
A supramolecular strategy as efficient as temperature that enabled facile control over collagen fibrillogenesis under physiological conditions was reported.
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Temperature-driven n–p conduction type switching without structural transition in a Cu-rich chalcogenide, NaCu5S3

Chem. Commun., 2020, 56,4882-4885
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01429J, Communication
Shangqing Qu, Yonggang Wang, Yu Xiao, Yujie Yuan, Shengyi Li, Jikun Chen, Lidong Zhao, Zhiguo Xia, Jing Zhao
We report for the first time the discovery of reversible n–p conduction type switching in a chalcogenide, NaCu5S3, without structural transition.
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Pd-Promoted cross coupling of iodobenzene with vinylgold via an unprecedented phenyl transmetalation from Pd to Au

Chem. Commun., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC02645J, Communication
Jiwei Wang, Licheng Zhan, Gendi Wang, Yin Wei, Min Shi, Jun Zhang
Oxidative addition of Pd/Au vinylene species with iodobenzene reveals the effect of a strong metallophilic Pd⋯Au interaction on phenyl transmetalation from PdIV to AuI, which allows subsequent reductive elimination of LAuI at Pd and Au.
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Chemically synthesized circular RNAs with phosphoramidate linkages enable rolling circle translation

Chem. Commun., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC02140G, Communication
Kosuke Nakamoto, Naoko Abe, Genichiro Tsuji, Yasuaki Kimura, Fumiaki Tomoike, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Hiroshi Abe
Circular RNA without a stop codon enables rolling circle translation. we carried out one-pot chemical synthesis of circular RNA from RNA fragments. The synthesized circular RNAs acted as translation templates, despite the presence of unnatural phosphoramidate linkages.
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A convenient reagent for the conversion of aldoximes into nitriles and isonitriles

Chem. Commun., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0CC00188K, Communication
Wei Zhang, Jin-Hong Lin, Pengfei Zhang, Ji-Chang Xiao
Described herein is the convenient transformation of aldoximes into nitriles or isonitriles by slightly modifying reaction conditions.
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