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nitrile

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Any of a class of organic compounds containing a cyano functional group -C≡N

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Dr Sprecher hopes that research by CDC will lead to a more breathable Ebola-resistant fabric.In the past decade latex gloves have largely been replaced by those made with nitrile, a synthetic rubber that better resists disintegrating in chlorine disinfectants.

Nitrile rubber is mostly used where high oil resistance is required, as in automotive seals, gaskets, or other items subject to contact with hot oils.

The major elastomers employed as adhesives are natural rubber, butyl rubber, butadiene rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, nitrile rubber, silicone, and neoprene.

In 1980 an enzyme known as nitrile hydratase, which is also capable of generating acrylamide from acrylonitrile, was discovered in microorganisms.

Acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymers (known as nitrile rubber, or NR) and polychloroprene (neoprene rubber) are also made by radical polymerization.

Nitrile rubber, like styrene-butadiene rubber and other synthetic elastomers (elastic polymers), was a product of research that took place during and between the two world wars.

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Amides also can be dehydrated to nitriles.

Milder oxidation, using reagents such as NaOCl, can remove four hydrogen atoms from primary amines of the type RCH2NH2 to form nitriles (R−C≡N), and oxidation with reagents such as MnO2 can remove two hydrogen atoms from secondary amines (R2CH−NHR′) to form imines (R2C=NR′).

Aryl diazonium ions (ArN+≡N, where Ar denotes an aromatic ring) are especially useful starting materials for preparing aryl halides, because they provide access to aryl halides as well as to phenols and nitriles.

They can also be produced by the reaction of water with nitriles.

Some amines such as hexamethylenediamine, used in the manufacture of nylon-6,6 are nylon-6,6 areytic addition of hydrogen to nitriles, R≡CN.

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