Talk:Acyl cyanide

Weird formatting

For the salt metathesis reaction, which I added coloring to indicate the acyl cyanide group, I have no idea why the math chem formatting just decided to be slightly less pronounced/bolded than for the other reactions, and I can't seem to fix it without messing something else up. OlliverWithDoubleL (talk) 08:45, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for pitching in. IMHO, the formula formatting, specifically the font, is ugly, most editors here prefer Chem2. The labeling itself is slightly misleading or incorrect. Examples:

${\ce {CH2=}}{\color {red}{\ce {C=O}}}+{\ce {H}}{\color {red}{\ce {CN}}}\longrightarrow {\ce {H3C -}}{\color {red}{\ce {C(O)CN}}}$

H from HCN is incorporated into Me.

${\color {red}{\ce {R-C(O)CN}}}+{\ce {2 NaOH}}\longrightarrow {\color {red}{\ce {R-CO}}}{\ce {_2Na}}+{\ce {Na}}{\color {red}{\ce {CN}}}+{\ce {H2O}}$

O is incorporated into carboxylate.

--Smokefoot (talk) 16:51, 9 October 2022 (UTC)