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(E)-cinnamonitrile
Sign in to save'(E)-Cinnamonitrile' is an organic compound approved for use as a fragrance in products such as air fresheners. It has a spicy cinnamon/cassia aroma.
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It is catalogued under topics including Chembox having GHS data, Chemical articles with multiple CAS registry numbers and Chemical articles with multiple compound IDs.
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Chemical data
- Formula
- C9H7N
- Molecular weight
- 129.16 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- (E)-3-phenylprop-2-enenitrile
- SMILES
- C1=CC=C(C=C1)/C=C/C#N
- InChIKey
- ZWKNLRXFUTWSOY-QPJJXVBHSA-N
- XLogP
- 2
- Polar surface area
- 23.8 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 129.058
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- melting point
- 19.0
- canonical SMILES
- C1=CC=C(C=C1)C=CC#N
- chemical formula
- C₉H₇N
- isomeric SMILES
- C1=CC=C(C=C1)/C=C/C#N
- Commons category
- Cinnamonitrile
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Encyclopedic overview
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- References
'(E)-Cinnamonitrile' is an organic compound approved for use as a fragrance in products such as air fresheners. It has a spicy cinnamon/cassia aroma.
Synthetic routes include an aldol-like condensation of benzaldehyde with acetonitrile under alkaline conditions, an elimination reaction of various oximes derived from cinnamaldehyde, and oxidative coupling of benzene to acrylonitrile.
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