Aminomalononitrile (AMN) is the organic compound with the formula H2NCH(CN)2. The compound can be viewed as an amine-substituted malononitrile. It is of some interest to the study of the chemical origin of life because it represents a trimer of HCN, speculated to be a progenitor of nucleic acids. Aminomalononitrile has been prepared by reduction of the oxime: HONC=(CN)2 with aluminium amalgam. The compound is used in situ but can be isolated as its tosylate salt [H3NCH(CN)2]OTs where -OTs is CH3C6H4SO−3.
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House of Meetings, by Martin Amis, is a 2006 novel about two brothers who share a common love interest while living in a Soviet gulag during the last decade of Stalin's rule. This novel was written by Amis during a two-year-long self-imposed exile in Uruguay following the release and tepid reception afforded to his 2003 novel Yellow Dog. The writing of House of Meetings \"precipitated (another) creative crisis\" for Amis, which Amis reflected upon in 2010:
\n"}\"You see those Posy Simmonds cartoons of people by the pool having cocktails and saying into the Dictaphone, 'On the second day, the last child died,'\" he says. \"And I was in Uruguay, with my beautiful wife and beautiful daughters, living a completely stressless life. So I had to do my suffering on the page and, Christ, did I do it. I was very nervous about that book.\"
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\nAlexander Macdonald<