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Cyanoacetylene

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Cyanoacetylene

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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.

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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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.

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