mandelonitrilen.
/ˌmandələʊˈnʌɪtrʌɪl/, U.S. /ˌmændəloʊˈnaɪtraɪl/ Chemistry.
A yellow oily liquid, C6H5CH(OH)CN, which is the nitrile of mandelic acid and of which amygdalin is a glucoside.
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1898 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 74 ii. 509 When silicon tetrachloride is heated with mandelonitrile or lactonitrile, silicic acid and complex tarry products are formed.
1912 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 85 360 It..will be convenient to use the name Prunasin in speaking of the glucoside (d-mandelonitrile glucoside) which, hitherto, we have termed Fischer's glucoside.
1936 W. Stiles Introd. Princ. Plant Physiol. v. 106 The prunasin is now hydrolysed by means of prunase into glucose and mandelonitrile.
1956 I. L. Finar Org. Chem. II. vii. 244 The enzyme zymase hydrolyses amygdalin into one molecule of glucose and a glucoside of (+)-mandelonitrile (this compound is identical with prunasin, a naturally occurring glucoside).
1996 Jrnl. Agric. & Food Chem. 44 3817 Five mandelonitrile glycosides have been detected in the glycosidic fraction isolated from several Passiflora fruits.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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