“…Few cases of failure (177), except for certain acetonitriles substituted with a nitro group or two or more halogen atoms (306), have been noted in the synthesis of imidates from simple and substituted aliphatic nitriles (48,55,95,222,252,326), and the preparation of imidates from palmito- (96), stearo-, and lauronitriles (105) has been recorded. The method has been extended to give -hydroxyimidate hydrohalides from simple aldehyde and ketone cyanohydrins (23,182,227,261,285), and ethyl mandelimidate hydrochloride is now available commercially.…”