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valeronitrile
Sign in to saveAlso known as pentanenitrile, 1-cyanobutane, n-valeronitrile, butyl cyanide
Pentanenitrile, valeronitrile or butyl cyanide is a nitrile with the formula C4H9CN. This can be written BuCN, with Bu representing an n-butyl (linear butyl group).
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It is catalogued under topics including Alkanenitriles, Chembox having GHS data and ECHA InfoCard ID from Wikidata.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C5H9N
- Molecular weight
- 83.13 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- pentanenitrile
- SMILES
- CCCCC#N
- InChIKey
- RFFFKMOABOFIDF-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 1.1
- 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
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 83.073
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- canonical SMILES
- CCCCC#N
- chemical formula
- C₅H₉N
- Commons category
- Valeronitrile
- melting point
- -96.2
- electric dipole moment
- 4.12
- boiling point
- 141.3
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Production
- Properties
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Pentanenitrile, valeronitrile or butyl cyanide is a nitrile with the formula C4H9CN. This can be written BuCN, with Bu representing an n-butyl (linear butyl group).
==Production== Pentanenitrile can be produced by heating 1-chlorobutane with sodium cyanide in dimethyl sulfoxide. This reaction takes about 20 minutes, keeping the temperature below 160 °C. The yield is about 93%.
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