New trends and applications in cyanation isotope chemistry.

In this review, newly developed cyanation methods are evaluated in regards to their usefulness in synthetic isotope chemistry. In combination with already established protocols in 13/14 C- or 11 C-isotope chemistry, this manuscript should help isotope scientists to choose the best possible method for their scientific cyanation problem, but with the main focus on 14 C-applications. Perhaps, most promising of the described novel cyanation reaction is the decarboxylation-cyanation-hydrolysis approach which makes a 1-step late-stage functionalization procedure possible.