Mandelic acid synthesis

First published at 11:21 UTC on June 13th, 2018.
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We prepare mandelic acid firstly by reacting benzaldehyde with alkali cyanide to produce an intermediate mandelonitrile, and as a second step, hydrolysing this to form the product.

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