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Cyanocobalamin Synonyms: Cyano-5,6-dimethylbenzimidazole-cobalamin; Vitamin B12 Molecular Structure: Molecular Formula: C63H88CoN14O14P Molecular Weight: 1355.38 CAS Number: 68-19-9 EINECS: 200-680-0 Cyanocobalamin is an especially common vitamin of the B12 vitamin family. Cyanocobalamin is the most famous vitamin of the family, because it is chemically the most air-stable, and Cyanocobalamin is the easiest to crystallize and therefore easiest to purify after it is produced by bacterial fermentation. The cyanide is added to the molecule by activated charcoal columns in purification. Thus, the use of this form of B12 is the most wide-spread. This fact has caused some people (usually from reading labels on packages and vitamin supplements, in which vitamin B12 is almost always listed last, since ingredients by law are listed in order of weight percentage), to infer that the correct chemical name of vitamin B12 actually is cyanocobalamin. In fact, vitamin B12 is the name for a whol