The enzyme maltase decomposes it into glucose and mandelic nitrile glucoside; the latter is broken down by emulsin into glucose, benzaldehyde and prussic acid.
Emulsin also decomposes amygdalin directly into these compounds without the intermediate formation of mandelic nitrile glucoside.
Sulphuric acid decomposes it into d-glucose, benzaldehyde and prussic acid; while hydrochloric acid gives mandelic acid, d-glucose and ammonia.
As can be seen, the curve for the racemic tartrate occupies a large part of the diagram, {218} while that for racemic mandelic acid is much smaller.
As examples of this, may be taken dimethyl tartrate and mandelic acid, the freezing point curves of which are given in Figs.
Such a curve has been found in the case of the l-menthyl esters of d- and l-mandelic acid (Fig.
Similarly, it is possible to convert mandelo nitrile into mandelicacid by splitting off the nitrogen to form a COOH group, instead of splitting off the HCN group leaving benzaldehyde.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mandelic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
