• Acetone cyanohydrin (ACH) is an organic compound used in the production of methyl methacrylate, the monomer of the transparent plastic polymethyl methacrylate...
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    they are hydrolyzed to the α-hydroxy acid. Acetone cyanohydrin, (CH3)2C(OH)CN is the cyanohydrin of acetone. It is generated as an intermediate in the...
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    the world's acetone is used as a solvent, and a quarter is consumed as acetone cyanohydrin, a precursor to methyl methacrylate. Acetone is a good solvent...
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    the condensation of acetone and hydrogen cyanide: (CH3)2CO + HCN → (CH3)2C(OH)CN Sulfuric acid then hydrolyzes acetone cyanohydrin (ACH) to a sulfate ester-adduct...
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  • Cyanohydrin reaction of acetone with potassium cyanide Organic Syntheses Coll. Vol. 2, p. 7; Vol. 15, p. 1 Article Cyanohydrin reaction of benzoquinone...
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  • reaction acetone cyanohydrin ⇌ {\displaystyle \rightleftharpoons } cyanide + acetone Hence, this enzyme has one substrate, acetone cyanohydrin, and two...
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  • prepared by transcyanohydrin reactions starting, for example, with acetone cyanohydrin as a source of HCN. Nitriles can be prepared by the dehydration of...
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    academic interest. Acetone imine is prepared by dehydrocyanation of the cyanoamine of acetone, which is prepared from acetone cyanohydrin. Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide...
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    juice of the bitter cassava root, which is poisonous (it contains acetone cyanohydrin, a compound which decomposes to the highly toxic hydrogen cyanide...
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    (PMMA). In the most common route, methacrylic acid is prepared from acetone cyanohydrin, which is converted to methacrylamide sulfate using sulfuric acid...
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