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Cyanoacetylene
Sign in to saveCyanoacetylene is an organic compound with the formula or . It is the simplest cyanopolyyne. Cyanoacetylene has been detected by spectroscopic methods in interstellar clouds, in the coma of comet Hale–Bopp and in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, where it sometimes forms expansive fog-like clouds.
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Vinony's link graph records 214 inbound references to Cyanoacetylene, and connects out to hydrogen cyanide, acrylonitrile and water.
Vinony files it under Alkyne derivatives, Conjugated nitriles and ECHA InfoCard ID from Wikidata.
Vinony links it to 22 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C3HN
- Molecular weight
- 51.05 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- prop-2-ynenitrile
- SMILES
- C#CC#N
- InChIKey
- LNDJVIYUJOJFSO-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 0.5
- Polar surface area
- 23.8 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- unsaturated compound
- Has part
- hydrogen
- Mass
- 51.010899
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- chemical formula
- C₃HN
- canonical SMILES
- C#CC#N
- Commons category
- Cyanoacetylene
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Encyclopedic overview
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Cyanoacetylene is an organic compound with the formula or . It is the simplest cyanopolyyne. Cyanoacetylene has been detected by spectroscopic methods in interstellar clouds, in the coma of comet Hale–Bopp and in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan, where it sometimes forms expansive fog-like clouds.
Cyanoacetylene is one of the molecules that was produced in the Miller–Urey experiment.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cyanoacetylene” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.