Potassium Cyanide → HCID 59838024, compound

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To 2-fluoro-5-chloro-benzaldehyde (12.7 g, 17 mmol) in ethyl acetate (50 mL) was added a solution of KCN (3.3 g) and NaHSO3 (5.3 g) dissolved in H2O (25 mL). It was left stirring overnight before extracted with ethyl acetate (3×50 mL). The combined organic extracts were dried and concentrated. The crude product was purified by silica gel chromatography to give 121A (3.1 g, 99% yield) as an oil.

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