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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  • Gas phase ion energetics data
  • References
  • Notes
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Phase change data

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DRB - Donald R. Burgess, Jr.
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

Enthalpy of sublimation

Enthalpy of fusion

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

References

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Weast and Grasselli, 1989
CRC Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds, 2nd Editon, Weast,R.C and Grasselli, J.G., ed(s)., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 1989, 1. [all data]

Radomska and Radomski, 1991
Radomska, M.; Radomski, R., Phase diagrams in the binary systems of tetracyanoethylene with mesitylene, durene and pentamethylbenzene, Journal of Thermal Analysis, 1991, 37, 4, 693-704, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01913148 . [all data]

Boyd, 1963
Boyd, R.H., Thermochemistry of cyanocarbons, J. Chem. Phys., 1963, 38, 2529-2535. [all data]

Stephenson and Malanowski, 1987
Stephenson, Richard M.; Malanowski, Stanislaw, Handbook of the Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds, 1987, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3173-2 . [all data]

De Wit, Van Miltenburg, et al., 1983
De Wit, H.G.M.; Van Miltenburg, J.C.; De Kruif, C.G., Thermodynamic properties of molecular organic crystals containing nitrogen, oxygen, and sulphur 1. Vapour pressures and enthalpies of sublimation, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 1983, 15, 7, 651-663, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9614(83)90079-4 . [all data]

Boyd, 1963, 2
Boyd, Richard H., Thermochemistry of Cyanocarbons, J. Chem. Phys., 1963, 38, 10, 2529, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1733536 . [all data]

Cox and Pilcher, 1970
Cox, J.D.; Pilcher, G., Thermochemistry of Organic and Organometallic Compounds, Academic Press Inc., London, 1970, 643. [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
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation
  ΔsubH°	Enthalpy of sublimation at standard conditions

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