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oxirene
Sign in to saveOxirene is a heterocyclic chemical compound which contains an unsaturated three-membered ring containing two carbon atoms and one oxygen atom. The molecule was synthesized in low temperature ices and detected upon sublimation by isomer selective photoionization reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C2H2O
- Molecular weight
- 42.04 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- oxirene
- SMILES
- C1=CO1
- InChIKey
- BJEYNNFDAPPGST-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 0.1
- Polar surface area
- 12.5 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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- canonical SMILES
- C1=CO1
- chemical formula
- C₂H₂O
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- Oxirene
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Oxirene is a heterocyclic chemical compound which contains an unsaturated three-membered ring containing two carbon atoms and one oxygen atom. The molecule was synthesized in low temperature ices and detected upon sublimation by isomer selective photoionization reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
Quantum chemical computational techniques found the configuration to be extremely strained and proposed an antiaromatic 4π electron system, as such oxirene is expected to be very high energy.
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