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Nitryl Cyanide, NCNO 2
Author(s) -
Rahm Martin,
BélangerChabot Guillaume,
Haiges Ralf,
Christe Karl O.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201404209
Subject(s) - cyanide , yield (engineering) , chemistry , nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy , spectroscopy , interstellar medium , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , physics , thermodynamics , astrophysics , quantum mechanics , galaxy
The elusive nitryl cyanide, NCNO 2 , has been synthesized and characterized. It was prepared in good yield, isolated by fractional condensation, characterized by NMR and vibrational spectroscopy, and studied by theoretical calculations. Nitryl cyanide holds promise as a high energy density material (HEDM) and might also prove useful as a HEDM building block. The simplicity and inherent stability of nitryl cyanide, together with the known multitude of nitriles in interstellar space, suggest that the compound might also be a potential candidate for observations in atmospheric and interstellar chemistry.