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acenaphthylene
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Acenaphthylene, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon is an ortho- and peri-fused tricyclic hydrocarbon. The molecule resembles naphthalene with positions 1 and 8 connected by a -CH=CH- unit. It is a yellow solid. Unlike many polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, it has no fluorescence.
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Within Vinony's link graph, acenaphthylene is referenced by 76 other articles, and connects out to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzo[b]fluoranthene and International Standard Book Number.
It is catalogued under topics including Acenaphthylenes, Chembox having GHS data and Chembox image size set.
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C12H8
- Molecular weight
- 152.19 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- acenaphthylene
- SMILES
- C1=CC2=C3C(=C1)C=CC3=CC=C2
- InChIKey
- HXGDTGSAIMULJN-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 3.7
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- Has part
- carbon
- Mass
- 152.063
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- Commons category
- Acenaphthylene
- canonical SMILES
- C1=CC2=C3C(=C1)C=CC3=CC=C2
- chemical formula
- C₁₂H₈
- different from
- acenaphthene
- found in taxon
- Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Occurrence
- Reactions
- Uses
- Toxicity
- References
Acenaphthylene, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon is an ortho- and peri-fused tricyclic hydrocarbon. The molecule resembles naphthalene with positions 1 and 8 connected by a -CH=CH- unit. It is a yellow solid. Unlike many polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, it has no fluorescence.
==Occurrence== Acenaphthylene occurs as about 2% of coal tar. It is produced industrially by gas phase dehydrogenation of acenaphthene.
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