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What is a cyanohydrin?

What is a cyanohydrin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) Any compound having both a hydroxy and a cyanide functional group, especially one having these groups attached to the same carbon atom.
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Amination the cyanohydrin with ammonia or other amines causes production of alpha-amino-nitriles which are widely used for synthesizing the alpha amino acids.
Natural glycosides containing allopyranose from the passion fruit plant and circular dichroism of benzaldehyde cyanohydrin glycosides.
Therefore, it would appear that acetone cyanohydrin represents little risk to the environment under current production and use.
Formaldehyde reacts with the sodium cyanide to form formaldehyde cyanohydrin.

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