“…136 In this Section, we also present numerous examples of reactions of unsaturated nitriles with phenols, which can be regarded as completely enolysed ketones. 125 It is known that interaction of activated phenols (resorcinol, m-aminophenol, phloroglucinol) with a,b-unsaturated nitriles under the conditions of the Hoesch reaction 137 does not involve the cyano group. The phenols add to the double bond giving b-arylpropionitriles or products of their subsequent cyclisation (`anomalous Hoesch reaction' 138 ).…”