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In the presence of a catalytic amount of Lewis base such as amine, phosphine, arsine or antimony, trimethylsilyl cyanide (TMS-CN) smoothly reacts with aldehydes to afford the corresponding cyanohydrin trimethylsilyl ethers in excellent yields.
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Kobayashi et al. (1991) studied this question.
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