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cacodyl
Sign in to saveCacodyl, also known as dicacodyl or tetramethyldiarsine, (CH3)2As–As(CH3)2, is an organoarsenic compound that constitutes a major part of "Cadet's fuming liquid" (named after the French chemist Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt). It is a poisonous oily liquid with an extremely unpleasant garlicky odor. Cacodyl undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C4H12As2
- Molecular weight
- 209.98 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- dimethylarsanyl(dimethyl)arsane
- SMILES
- C[As](C)[As](C)C
- InChIKey
- RSKPLCGMBWEANE-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Has part
- carbon
- Mass
- 209.937
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- Commons category
- Cacodyl
- chemical formula
- C₄H₁₂As₂
- canonical SMILES
- C[As](C)[As](C)C
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Encyclopedic overview
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Cacodyl, also known as dicacodyl or tetramethyldiarsine, (CH3)2As–As(CH3)2, is an organoarsenic compound that constitutes a major part of "Cadet's fuming liquid" (named after the French chemist Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt). It is a poisonous oily liquid with an extremely unpleasant garlicky odor. Cacodyl undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air.
Cacodyl is also the name of the functional group or radical (CH3)2As.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cacodyl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.