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Nitrocyclohexane
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Nitrocyclohexane is an organic compound with the molecular formula C6H11NO2. It is a colorless liquid, but degraded samples appear pale yellow. It once was produced commercially as a precursor to caprolactam.
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Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C6H11NO2
- Molecular weight
- 129.16 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- nitrocyclohexane
- SMILES
- C1CCC(CC1)[N+](=O)[O-]
- InChIKey
- NJNQUTDUIPVROZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 1.8
- Polar surface area
- 45.8 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 129.079
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- chemical formula
- C₆H₁₁NO₂
- canonical SMILES
- C1CCC(CC1)[N+](=O)[O-]
- Commons category
- Nitrocyclohexane
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Preparation
- Hazards
- References
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Nitrocyclohexane is an organic compound with the molecular formula C6H11NO2. It is a colorless liquid, but degraded samples appear pale yellow. It once was produced commercially as a precursor to caprolactam.
==Preparation== It is prepared by reaction of nitrogen dioxide with cyclohexane, the so-called Nixian process. Cyclohexane is a convenient substrate because all twelve C-H bonds are equivalent, so mononitration does not give isomers (unlike the case of n-hexane).
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