Lengthening Carbohydrate Chains with HCN

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https://joechem.io/videos/199 for video on jOeCHEM and attached worksheet + solution (below video on jOeCHEM aka the link) In this video, we'll tackle how to lengthen carbohydrate chains (aldoses specifically), and if that sounds scary I promise it's not. Why, you might ask? Well because you know all the chemistry to do it! We'll use HCN to form a cyanohydrin, and then we'll reduce the nitrile to an aldehyde using DIBAL.

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