Tetracyanoethylene

• Formula: C₆N₄
• Molecular weight: 128.0910
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C6N4/c7-1-5(2-8)6(3-9)4-10 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: NLDYACGHTUPAQU-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 670-54-2
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Ethenetetracarbonitrile; δ2,2'-Bimalononitrile; Ethene, tetracyano-; Ethylenetetracarbonitrile; Tetracyanoethene; TCNE; (NC)2CC(CN)2; Tetrakyanethylen; 1,1,2,2-Tetracyanoethene; 1,1,2,2-Tetracyanoethylene; Ethylene, tetracyano-; 1,1,2,2-Ethenetetracarbonitrile; NSC 24833
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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

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Individual Reactions

 +  =

By formula: C₅H₆ + C₆N₄ = C₁₁H₆N₄

C₂₁H₁₂N₄ =  + 

By formula: C₂₁H₁₂N₄ = C₆N₄ + C₁₅H₁₂

=  + 

By formula: C₁₁H₈N₄ = C₆N₄ + C₅H₈

 +  =

By formula: C₆N₄ + C₅H₈ = C₁₁H₈N₄

 +  =

By formula: C₉H₁₀O + C₆N₄ = C₁₅H₁₀N₄O

 +  = C₁₂H₁₀N₄

By formula: C₆H₁₀ + C₆N₄ = C₁₂H₁₀N₄

 +  =

By formula: C₆H₈ + C₆N₄ = C₁₂H₈N₄

C₁₂H₁₀N₄ =  + 

By formula: C₁₂H₁₀N₄ = C₆H₁₀ + C₆N₄

=  + 

By formula: C₁₂H₈N₄ = C₆H₈ + C₆N₄

=  + 

By formula: C₁₁H₆N₄ = C₅H₆ + C₆N₄

=  + 

By formula: C₂₀H₁₀N₄ = C₁₄H₁₀ + C₆N₄

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
B - John E. Bartmess

Electron affinity determinations

Ionization 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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Additional Data

References

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Samuilov, Bukharov, et al., 1981
Samuilov, Ya.D.; Bukharov, S.V.; Konovalov, A.I., Reactivity of tetraphenylcyclopentadiene and tetracyclone in the Diels-Alder reaction with cyanoethylenes, Zh. Org. Khim., 1981, 17, 2389-2393. [all data]

Rogers, 1972
Rogers, F.E., Thermochemistry of the Diels-Alder reactions. II. Heat of addition of several dienes to tetracyanoethylene, J. Phys. Chem., 1972, 76, 106-109. [all data]

Lotfi and Roberts, 1979
Lotfi, M.; Roberts, R.M.G., Kinetics and mechanism of Diels-Alder additions of tetracyanoethylene to anthracene derivatives - I. Substituent effects, Tetrahedron, 1979, 35, 2131-2136. [all data]

Rogers, 1971
Rogers, F.E., Thermochemistry of the Diels-Alder reaction. I. Enthalpy of addition of isoprene to tetracyanoethylene, J. Phys. Chem., 1971, 75, 1734-1737. [all data]

Solomonov, Antipin, et al., 1979
Solomonov, B.N.; Antipin, I.S.; Konovalov, A.I.; Novikov, V.B., Solvation effects in the retro[2 + 2]cycloaddition reaction, Zh. Org. Khim., 1979, 15, 2466-24. [all data]

Khuseynov, Fontana, et al., 2012
Khuseynov, D.; Fontana, M.T.; Sanov, A., Photoelectron spectroscopy and photochemistry of tetracyanoethylene radical anion in the gas phase, Chem. Phys. Lett., 2012, 550, 15-18, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2012.08.035 . [all data]

Chowdhury and Kebarle, 1986
Chowdhury, S.; Kebarle, P., Electron affinities of di- and tetracyanoethylene and cyanobenzenes based on measurements of gas-phase electron transfer equilibria, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1986, 108, 5453. [all data]

Lyons and Palmer, 1976
Lyons, L.E.; Palmer, L.D., The electron affinity of tetracyanoethylene and other organic electron acceptors, Aust. J. Chem., 1976, 29, 1919. [all data]

Lyons and Palmer, 1975
Lyons, L.E.; Palmer, L.D., A Surface ionization source and quadrupole mass filter for photodetachment studies, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Phys., 1975, 16, 431. [all data]

Lyons and Palmer, 1973
Lyons, L.E.; Palmer, L.D., Photodetachment of electrons from tetracyanoethylene nNegative ions, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1973, 21, 442. [all data]

Farragher and Page, 1967
Farragher, A.L.; Page, F.M., Experimental Determination of Electron Affinities. Part 11. - Electron Capture by Some Cyanocarbons and Related Compounds, Trans. Farad. Soc., 1967, 63, 2369, https://doi.org/10.1039/tf9676302369 . [all data]

Knowles and Nicholson, 1974
Knowles, D.J.; Nicholson, A.J.C., Ionization energies of formic and acetic acid monomers, J. Chem. Phys., 1974, 60, 1180. [all data]

Kotov and Potapov, 1972
Kotov, B.V.; Potapov, V.K., Ionization potentials of strong organic electron acceptors, Khim. Vys. Energ., 1972, 6, 375. [all data]

Houk and Munchausen, 1976
Houk, K.N.; Munchausen, L.L., Ionization potentials, electron affinities, reactivities of cyanoalkenes related electron-deficient alkenes. A frontier molecular orbital treatment of cyanoalkene reactivities in cycloaddition, electrophilic, nucleophilic, and radical reactions., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1976, 98, 937. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  EA	Electron affinity
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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