{"term":{"id":"01489","title":"cyanohydrins","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - cyanohydrins","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.C01489","code":"C01489","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"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. $\\ce{(CH3)2C(OH)C#N}$ 'acetone cyanohydrin' (2-hydroxy-2-methylpropanenitrile), $\\ce{HOCH2CH2C#N}$ 'ethylene cyanohydrin' (3-hydroxypropanenitrile).","links":[{"term":"alcohols","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/A00204"},{"term":"aldehydes","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/A00208"},{"term":"halohydrins","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/H02727"},{"term":"ketones","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/K03386"}],"sources":["PAC, 1995, 67, 1307. 'Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)' on page 1329 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac199567081307)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/C01489\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/C01489\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/C01489\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'cyanohydrins' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.C01489","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-15T05:48:24+00:00"}}