“…The remarkable importance of a-bromoacetonitrile derivatives [14,15], for the construction of variety of heterocyclic compounds promoted us to investigate the synthesis of new bromopropionitrile derivative. Thus, a suspension of 1 in acetic acid or chloroform reacted readily with bromine to yield dibromopropionitrile derivative 9, while monobromopropionitrile derivative 10 was not obtained, but when the reaction take place with N-bromosuccinamide in dimethylformamide at room temperature compound 9 was obtained.…”