Propanedinitrile

• Formula: C₃H₂N₂
• Molecular weight: 66.0614
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C3H2N2/c4-2-1-3-5/h1H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: CUONGYYJJVDODC-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 109-77-3
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Malononitrile; Cyanoacetonitrile; Dicyanomethane; Malonic acid dinitrile; Malonodinitrile; Methane, dicyano-; Methylene cyanide; Methylenedinitrile; CH2(CN)2; Malonitrile; Malonic dinitrile; Nitril kyseliny malonove; USAF A-4600; Dwumetylosulfotlenku; Rcra waste number U149; UN 2647; USAF KF-19; NSC 3769
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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

Phase change data

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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
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Reduced pressure boiling point

Enthalpy of fusion

Temperature of phase transition

Enthalpy of phase transition

Entropy of phase transition

References

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Beckhaus, Dogan, et al., 1990
Beckhaus, H.D.; Dogan, B.; Pakusch, J.; Verevkin, S.; Ruechardt, C., Geminal substituent effects. 4. The dependence of the inverse anomeric effect of geminal cyano groups on the structure, Chem. Ber., 1990, 123, 2153-2159. [all data]

Boyd, Guha, et al., 1967
Boyd, R.H.; Guha, K.R.; Wuthrich, R., Thermochemistry of cyanocarbons. II. The heats of combustion of pyridinium dicyanomethylide, malononitrile, and fumaronitrile, J. Phys. Chem., 1967, 71, 2187-2191. [all data]

Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., 1990
Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals, Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Milwaukee WI, 1990, 1. [all data]

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]

Stephenson, 1994
Stephenson, R.M., Mutual Solubility of Water and Nitriles, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1994, 39, 225-7. [all data]

Trunel, 1939
Trunel, P., Electric Moments in Several Homologous Series of Organic Compounds, Ann. Chim. (Paris), 1939, 12, 110. [all data]

Van de Vloed, 1939
Van de Vloed, A., Bull. Soc. Chim. Belg., 1939, 48, 229. [all data]

Bruhl, 1895
Bruhl, J.W., Spectrochemistry of Nitrogen-Containing Compounds. I., Z. Phys. Chem., Stoechiom. Verwandtschaftsl., 1895, 16, 193. [all data]

Girdhar, Westrum, et al., 1968
Girdhar, H.L.; Westrum, E.F.; Wulff, C.A., Thermodynamic properties and third-law cycle for malononitrile., J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1968, 13, 239-42. [all data]

Westrum and Wulff, 1968
Westrum, E.F.; Wulff, C.A., Thermodynamic properties and third-law cycle for malononitrile, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1968, 13, 239. [all data]

Badea, Blanco, et al., 2007
Badea, Elena; Blanco, Ignazio; Della Gatta, Giuseppe, Fusion and solid-to-solid transitions of a homologous series of alkane-α,ω-dinitriles, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 2007, 39, 10, 1392-1398, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jct.2007.03.005 . [all data]

Domalski and Hearing, 1996
Domalski, Eugene S.; Hearing, Elizabeth D., Heat Capacities and Entropies of Organic Compounds in the Condensed Phase. Volume III, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1996, 25, 1, 1, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.555985 . [all data]

Wasiutynski, Olejarczyk, et al., 1987
Wasiutynski, T.; Olejarczyk, W.; Sciesinski, J.; Witko, W., Phase transition studies of malononitrile, J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys., 1987, 20, L65-L69. [all data]

Girdhar, Westrum, et al., 1968, 2
Girdhar, H.L.; Westrum, E.F., Jr.; Wulff, C.A., Thermodynamic properties and third-law cycle for malononitrile, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1968, 13, 239-242. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  Ttrs	Temperature of phase transition
  ΔHtrs	Enthalpy of phase transition
  ΔStrs	Entropy of phase transition
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔsubH°	Enthalpy of sublimation at standard conditions

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