benzyl

Definitions

Examples

• The active ingredient is Benzyl Nicotinate (niacinamide), part of the drug group of vasodilators that widen blood vessels.

• The first of these is benzyl chloride, the second benzal chloride, and the third benzotrichloride or phenyl chloroform.

• Lauryl benzyl phosphonic acid, dipotassium salt, in 20% solution.

• The first step is to chlorinate ordinary toluol, one of the coal tar bases, to produce benzyl chloride.

• It is then only necessary to brominate the benzyl cyanide by treating it with bromine vapor.

• This chloride is then mixed with sodium cyanide in alcoholic solution and distilled, benzyl cyanide being the result.