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(57) Abstract: [PROBLEMS] To provide a method for producing cyanothiophene, which is a compound useful as a raw material for raw materials for medicines and agricultural chemicals, in high yield. SOLUTION: Thiophenes having an alkyl group or an acyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, ammonia and oxygen are reacted in a gas phase in the presence of a specific vanadium-containing oxide composition as a catalyst. |