Electronic structure in molecules, especially in cyano compounds / E. Clementi -- Introduction of the cyano group into the molecule / Klaus Friedrich and Kurt Wallenfels -- Basicity, hydrogen bonding and complex formation / Just Grundnes and Peter Klaboe -- Detection and determination of nitriles / David J. Curran and Sidney Siggia -- Directing and activating effects of the cyano group / William A. Sheppard -- Nitrile reactivity / Fred C. Schaefer -- Reduction of the cyano group / Mordecai Rabinovitz -- Additions to the cyano group to form heterocycles / A.I. Meyers and J.C. Sircar -- Cyanocarbon and polycyano compounds / E. Ciganek, W.J. Linn and O.W. Webster -- Molecular complexes of polycyano compounds / L. Russell Melby -- Radicals with cyano groups / H.D. Hartzler -- The biological function and formation of the cyano group / J.P. Ferris -- Syntheses and uses of isotopically labelled cyanides / Louis Pichat -- Nitrile oxides / Ch. Grundmann -- Isonitriles / Peter Hoffmann, Dieter Marquarding, Helmut Kliimann and Ivar Ugi -- Rearrangement reactions involving the cyano group / Joseph Casanova.