Formation of Cyanide Ion by the Reaction of Amines and Nitrite Ion. III. Formation of Cyanide Ion by the Reaction of Glycine and Nitrite Ion at Various pH and Room Temperature

Abstract

In addition to the previous finding that the aliphatic amines react with the nitrite ion to form cyanide ion on distillation of a mixture in acidic condition, an interesting fact was found that glycine reacted with the nitrite ion even in a neutral phosphate buffer solution without heating to form a cyanide ion. This fact suggests the possibility that cyanide ion might be naturally produced in a polluted river water even in the absence of the source of a cyanide ion.