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We found that acetonitrile acted as a reactant under the conventional reaction conditions for aliphatic nucleophilic 18 Ffluorination in acetonitrile to provide the N-alkyl 3-aminobut-2enenitrile as one of the side products. Dimerization of acetonitrile promoted by a complex of K 2 CO 3 and K222 provided 3-aminobut-2-enenitrile, which acted as nucleophile to provide N-alkyl amino derivatives. Based on the finding, avoiding acetonitrile in the drying of [ 18 F]fluoride as well as 18 Flabeling enabled the preparation of 18 F-labeled compounds containing only a small amount of the corresponding alcohol. Finally, we used an automated synthesizer to achieve an efficient phase-tag-assisted synthesis of 18 F-labeled stilbene derivative as a 18 F-labeled amyloid-β ligand.