Diazene, dimethyl-

• Formula: C₂H₆N₂
• Molecular weight: 58.0824
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2H6N2/c1-3-4-2/h1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: JCCAVOLDXDEODY-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 503-28-6
• Chemical structure:
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• Stereoisomers:
  • (E)-CH3N=NCH3
• Other names: Azomethane; (CH3N)2; 1,2-Dimethyldiazene; Dimethyldiazene
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  • Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels
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Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

View reactions leading to C₂H₆N₂⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Data compiled by: NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center, William E. Wallace, director

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Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels

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Data compiled by: Takehiko Shimanouchi

Symmetry:   C_2h     Symmetry Number σ = 2

Source: Shimanouchi, 1972

Notes

References

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Frost, Lee, et al., 1976
Frost, D.C.; Lee, S.T.; McDowell, C.A.; Westwood, N.P.C., The photoelectron spectra of diazene, diazene-d2, trans-methyldiazene, J. Chem. Phys., 1976, 64, 4719. [all data]

Prasil and Forst, 1968
Prasil, Z.; Forst, W., Mass spectrometry of azomethane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1968, 90, 3344. [all data]

Gowenlock, Majer, et al., 1962
Gowenlock, B.G.; Majer, J.R.; Snelling, D.R., Bond dissociation energies in some azo compounds, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans., 1962, 58, 670. [all data]

Rao, 1975
Rao, C.N.R., Lone-pair ionization bands of chromophores in the photoelectron spectra of organic molecules, Indian J. Chem., 1975, 13, 950. [all data]

Koenig, Balle, et al., 1975
Koenig, T.; Balle, T.; Snell, W., Helium(I) photoelectron spectra of organic radicals, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1975, 97, 662. [all data]

Foster and Beauchamp, 1972
Foster, M.S.; Beauchamp, J.L., Gas-phase ion chemistry of azomethane by ion cyclotron resonance spectroscopy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1972, 94, 2425. [all data]

Shimanouchi, 1972
Shimanouchi, T., Tables of Molecular Vibrational Frequencies Consolidated Volume II, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1972, 6, 3, 993-1102. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy

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