Cyanoacetylene is an
organic compound
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with the 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
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of
comet Hale–Bopp
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and in the atmosphere of
Saturn
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's moon
Titan
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, where it sometimes forms expansive fog-like clouds.
Cyanoacetylene is one of the molecules that was produced in the
Miller–Urey experiment
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.
:
Nickel carbonyl
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catalyzes cyanoacetylene
carboalkoxylation to
cyanoacrylate
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esters.
See also
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Dicyanoacetylene, N≡C−C≡C−C≡N
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Diacetylene
Diacetylene (also known as butadiyne) is the organic compound with the formula or . It is the simplest compound containing two triple bonds. It is first in the series of polyynes, which are of theoretical but not of practical interest.
Occurre ...
, H−C≡C−C≡C−H
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Cyanogen
Cyanogen is the chemical compound with the chemical formula, formula . Its structure is . The simplest stable carbon nitride, it is a Transparency and translucency, colorless and highly toxic gas with a pungency, pungent odor. The molecule is a ...
, N≡C−C≡N
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Hydrocyanic acid, H−C≡N
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Polyyne, R−(C≡C)
''n''−R
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Alkyne derivatives
Conjugated nitriles