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Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of O-acetylcyanohydrins from potassium cyanide, acetic anhydride, and aldehydes, promoted by chiral salen complexes of …
... was injected in due order into a soln. of benzaldehyde (0.2 ml, 2 mmol), Ac2O (0.36 ml, 4 mmol), and KCN (0.4 g, 6 mmol) in an appropriate volume of CH2Cl2 (the total volume of the reaction mixture was 5 ml). ... Helvetica Chimica Acta ± Vol. 85 (2002) 3312