Cyanoacetylene is an
organic compound
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with formula or . It is the simplest
cyanopolyyne. Cyanoacetylene has been detected by
spectroscopic methods in
interstellar cloud
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s, in the
coma of
comet Hale–Bopp
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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
The Miller–Urey experiment (or Miller experiment) is a famous chemistry experiment that simulated the conditions thought at the time (1952) to be present in the atmosphere of the early, prebiotic Earth, in order to test the hypothesis of the ...
.
:
H-C#C-H + H-C#N -> H-C#C-C#N + H2
See also
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Dicyanoacetylene
Dicyanoacetylene, also called carbon subnitride or but-2-ynedinitrile (IUPAC), is a compound of carbon and nitrogen with chemical formula . It has a linear molecular structure, (often abbreviated as ), with alternating triple and single covalen ...
, N≡C−C≡C−C≡N
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Diacetylene, H−C≡C−C≡C−H
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Cyanogen
Cyanogen is the chemical compound with the formula ( C N)2. It is a colorless and highly toxic gas with a pungent odor. The molecule is a pseudohalogen. Cyanogen molecules consist of two CN groups – analogous to diatomic halogen molecu ...
, N≡C−C≡N
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Hydrocyanic acid
Hydrogen cyanide, sometimes called prussic acid, is a chemical compound with the formula HCN and structure . It is a colorless, extremely poisonous, and flammable liquid that boils slightly above room temperature, at . HCN is produced on an in ...
, H−C≡N
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Polyyne, R−(C≡C)
''n''−R
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Alkyne derivatives
Conjugated nitriles