Talk:Strecker amino acid synthesis

In the second step of the mechanism the arrow pushing is wrong, adding electrons to a negative charge! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.153.69.18 (talk) 21:32, 24 April 2008 (UTC) in the second to last intermediate of this mechanism there are too many "R"s

• the new reaction mechanism images are not an improvement, arrow pushing does not work like that. The image quality has also deteriorated. We would like to step away from gifsV8rik (talk) 20:13, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Strecker reaction for sulfonic acids

I encountered this factoid from Chem Abs: "The Strecker reaction" Turkiewicz, N.; Pilat, St. Chem Ber 1938, 71B, 284-5. (this paper has never been cited) Abstract (translated) "In the prepn. of sulfonic acids of naphthene hydrocarbons by the so-called Strecker reaction (Strecker, Ann. 148, 90(1868))..." Apparently the "Strecker reaction" of alkyl halides with sulfite salts is fairly common route to alkanesulfonic acids (vs aryl which in fact are made via SO3). So the question is whether it is worth creating an article on the Strecker reaction.--Smokefoot (talk) 15:05, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Scope

I don't think an isopropyl group counts as "scope". 130.126.255.12 (talk) 17:42, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Reaction conditions

The article lacks information on typical reaction conditions for the synthesis. With hydrogen cyanide overpressure is used, isn't it?150.227.15.253 (talk) 22:14, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

The other way round?

Present text: "reaction of an aldehyde with ammonia in the presence of potassium cyanide"

Isn't it rather "reaction of an aldehyde with potassium cyanide in the presence of ammonia" or probably

"reaction of an aldehyde with alkali cyanide in the presence of ammonia" or even

"reaction of an aldehyde with cyanide in the presence of ammonia" ? 150.227.15.253 (talk) 12:19, 12 December 2023 (UTC)