Alcohols substituted by a cyano group, most commonly, but not limited to, examples having
a cyano and a hydroxy group attached to the same carbon atom, formally derived from
aldehydes or
ketones by the addition of hydrogen cyanide. An individual cyanohydrin can systematically
be named as a hydroxy nitrile, e.g.
(CH3)2C(OH)C≡N
'
acetone cyanohydrin' (2-hydroxy-2-methylpropanenitrile),
HOCH2CH2C≡N
'
ethylene cyanohydrin' (3-hydroxypropanenitrile).
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307
(Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on
structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995))
on page 1329
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A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
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