1. First is the reaction between benzonitrile N-benzylide and methyl acrylate. 2. Your problem might be distinguishing the benzonitrile and the benzaldehyde. 3. :Benzyl cyanide is more usually called benzonitrile . 4. Both benzaldehyde and benzonitrile smell like almonds. 5. The benzonitrile ligands are readily displaced by stronger ligands, making benzonitrile complexes useful synthetic intermediates. 6. The benzonitrile ligands are readily displaced by stronger ligands, making benzonitrile complexes useful synthetic intermediates. 7. Benzonitrile forms coordination complexes with transition metals that are both soluble in organic solvents and conveniently labile.8. Benzonitrile can also act a ligand in asymmetric catalysis, coordinating to transition metals and forming Lewis acids.9. Typically benzene, toluene, C2-alkyl benzene and traces of biphenyl, benzonitrile and aliphatic hydrocarbones. 10. The epoxidation of various alkanes in the presence of benzonitrile yields oxiranes in yields of 79 to 96 %.
