What product would you expect from a nucleophilic substitution reaction of (R)-1-bromo-1-phenylethane with cyanide ion, $^{-}{C} equiv {N}$, as nucleophile? Show the stereochemistry of both reactant and product, assuming that inversion of configu- ration occurs.
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