Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several compounds that contain both the CN and OH radicals.
Wiktionary
- n. chemistry Any compound having both a hydroxy and a cyanide functional group, especially one having these groups attached to the same carbon atom.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any organic compound in which the cyano radical -CN and the hydroxyl radical -OH are attached to the same carbon atom
Etymologies
- cyano- + hydr(o)- + -in. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“At last February's Informex trade show in New Orleans, Avecia announced a research partnership with Synetix Chiral Technologies, a unit of ICI, to develop immobilized versions of its transfer hydrogenation and cyanohydrin catalyst systems.”
“The company's catalytic asymmetric transfer hydrogenation process, dubbed CATHy, offers a route to chiral alcohols and amines, while its carbon-carbon bond forming technology, known as CACHy, is said to improve the economics of chiral cyanohydrin synthesis.”
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