What are the products when hydrocyanic acid (HCN) and ammonia (NH3) react?

Question

This is supposed to be an acid/base reaction, but it's not a typical one because the typical ones usually end up with a salt and water, but there's no oxygen in those reactants, so water can't be a product. What are the products for this reaction?

Answer 1

The HCN donates it's hydrogen atom to the NH3, so you get CN- and NH4. there's the acid base.

Answer 2

I'd expect NH4CN.

Answer 3

acid gives a hydrogen and base accepts it, becoming the conjugate acid and base

so your ammonia becomes ammonim and hydrocloric acid becomes just CN