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Thermal ring-opening of heterocyclic phosgeniminium salts 1 affords either ω-chloroalkylisocyanide dichlorides 2a-f or N-trichloromethyl chloroformamidines 2g-i in very good yields.
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Guiliol et al. (1989) studied this question.
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