Determine the product of the addition reaction.

Video transcript

Welcome back, everyone draw the plausible product of the following synthesis. The starting material given to us is an aldehyde and specifically, it reacts with hydro cyanic acid in the presence of sodium cyanide. And we essentially have to recognize that this is a reaction between a carbonyl and HCN which allows us to obtain hydroxy nitrile. Now, how does that happen? Well, we can essentially think about the general reaction mechanism or the general reaction to be more accurate. Let's suppose that we have an alkyl group bonded to Carbel and that Carbel also has hygen attached to it, right. So we have drawn a general structure of an aldehyde. When an aldehyde reacts with HCM or hydro cyanic acid in the presence of sodium cyanide, we are essentially going to turn our carbel into an alcohol group. So we're breaking our pi bond and we're obtaining the oh, to begin with. Now, we still have hydrogen attached to our carbon. We're just making it implicit. But our next functional group that we're getting attached to the car bonos carbon will be that cm. And our product is therefore a hydroxy ni trial, right. So what we're going to do in this problem is use the general reaction to get the correct product in our problem. Let's go ahead and draw the original structure and now we can simply break our pipe bond, leave a single bond, turn that car bono group into an alcohol and simply add cm bonded to the carbon carbon. Well, then we have our final product. Let's label it as our final answer. Thank you for watching.