yanide is considered to be one of the most toxic and lethal pollutants presently occurring in nature. It is known to be a noxious environmental contaminant causing serious health hazards, the production of which is mostly from anthropogenic sources as well as from naturally occurring biogenic processes in various plants. [1] The effect of cyanide in physiological systems in humans and other animals is mostly inhibition of respiration in the mitochondrial respiratory chain, because it binds to cytochrome c and inhibits its normal functions.