text: The carbon center of a nitrile is electrophilic, hence it is susceptible to nucleophilic addition reactions:
  * with an organozinc compound in the Blaise reaction
  * with alcohols in the Pinner reaction.
  * with amines, e.g. the reaction of the amine sarcosine with cyanamide yields creatine
  * Nitriles react in Friedel–Crafts acylation in the Houben–Hoesch reaction to ketones