Isocyanides RNC and the isomeric nitriles, RCN, reacting with alkali or alkaline earth metals in liquid ammonia undergo reductive fission to metal cyanides and carbanions R − . The latter are ammonolized to the corresponding hydrocarbons.
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Büchner et al. (1966) studied this question.
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