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. 2010 May 18;16(25):7596–7604. doi: 10.1002/chem.201000487

Table 5.

Water concentrations of each of the reaction components.

System Water concentration [ppm]
MTBE[a] 200
MeHNL-CLEA[b] 7800
benzaldehyde (1)[c] 400
acetone cyanohydrin (2)[c] 5100
total 13 500
[a]

Directly from a Sure/Seal bottle.

[b]

The CLEA was suspended in dry MTBE and stirred for 24 h. A sample of solvent was then injected into the Karl Fischer titrator.

[c]

Samples of freshly distilled reagents were injected directly into the Karl-Fischer titrator.