Hydrogen Cyanide → L-Methionine

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Reaction Steps

As a process for producing methionine, a process in which a raw material, 3-methylthiopropanal is reacted with hydrogen cyanide in the presence of a base (a cyanohydrination step); subsequently, the resulting product is reacted with ammonium carbonate (a hydantoination step); and then the resulting product is hydrolyzed to give methionine is widely known (see JP-A-2002-114758, JP-A-2002-105048, JP-A-2003-104958, JP-A-2003-104959, JP-A-2003-104960, JP-A-10-182593, JP-A-2003-119557, JP-A-11-217370 and JP-A-2007-314507).

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