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malononitrile
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Malononitrile is an organic compound nitrile with the formula . It is a colorless or white solid, although aged samples appear yellow or even brown. It is a widely used building block in organic synthesis.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C3H2N2
- Molecular weight
- 66.06 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- propanedinitrile
- SMILES
- C(C#N)C#N
- InChIKey
- CUONGYYJJVDODC-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- -0.5
- Polar surface area
- 47.6 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Malononitrile is an organic compound nitrile with the formula . It is a colorless or white solid, although aged samples appear yellow or even brown. It is a widely used building block in organic synthesis.
==Preparation and reactions== It can be prepared by dehydration of cyanoacetamide. Most commonly malononitrile is produced by the gas-phase reaction of acetonitrile and cyanogen chloride:
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