[limpet chicken]

I wish to perform a dimerisation reaction on benzaldehyde, on a small scale, to form benzil, but I cannot find a specific for the dimerisation itself, can anyone help me on this?

Thanks.

[AWK]

http://alpha.chem.umb.edu/chemistry/orgchem/Benzoin.pdf
http://www.umsl.edu/~orglab/pdffiles/multistp.pdf
http://chemlearn.chem.indiana.edu/Fall/c343/C343L14.pdf
http://chemistry.uiuc.edu/chem/gradprogram/chem435/fall04/03_Adams_Abstract.pdf
http://www.chempensoftware.com/reactions/RXN115.htm

[limpet chicken]

Thanks AWK, that is EXACTLY what I was after.

I greatly prefer working with thiamine HCl as the dimerisation catalyst than cyanides, this makes the whole reaction so much easier to perform, and so much safer.