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Cyanogen Bromide

CBrN, 105.922 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

verified recordInorganic compound6 measured properties

Drawn from the SMILES. It shows how the atoms are connected — not a photograph of a molecule, and not its shape in space.

Identifiers

Molecular formula
CBrN
Molecular weight
105.922 g/mol
Exact mass
104.921411 g/mol
SMILES
N#CBr
InChI
InChI=1S/CBrN/c2-1-3
InChIKey
ATDGTVJJHBUTRL-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Both are open without an account.

Measured properties

Values somebody obtained from a sample and published. Where two sources report the same property they are both shown, in the units each used — a disagreement between them is information, and averaging it away would be inventing a number neither one gave.

Boiling Point
142 °F at 760 mmHg (EPA, 1998)measured · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1998. Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHS) Chemical Profiles and Emergency First Aid Guides. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
61.5 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.) CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 91st ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press Inc., 2010-2011, p. 4-56
61-62 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
61.6 °C @760 [mm Hg]measured · reference compound database
Melting Point
126 °F (EPA, 1998)measured · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1998. Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHS) Chemical Profiles and Emergency First Aid Guides. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
52 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.) CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 91st ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press Inc., 2010-2011, p. 4-56
52 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
52 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Flash Point
Not Applicable. Not flammable. (USCG, 1999)measured · U.S. Coast Guard. 1999. Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) - Hazardous Chemical Data. Commandant Instruction 16465.12C. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Solubility
In water, soluble with hydrolysismeasured · Kopras EJ; Cyanides and Nitriles. Patty's Toxicology. 6th ed. (1999-2013). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. On-line posting date: 17 Aug 2012
Soluble in ethanol, ethyl ethermeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.) CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 91st ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press Inc., 2010-2011, p. 4-56
Soluble in benzenemeasured · Lewis, R.J. Sr.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 15th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY 2007., p. 355
Aqueous solutions of alkalies decomposes /cyanogen bromide/ to alkali cyanide and alkali bromidemeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 478
For more Solubility (Complete) data for CYANOGEN BROMIDE (6 total), please visit the HSDB record page.measured · reference compound database
Solubility in water: slow reactionmeasured · reference compound database
Density
2.015 at 68 °F (EPA, 1998) - Denser than water; will sinkmeasured · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1998. Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHS) Chemical Profiles and Emergency First Aid Guides. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
2.015 g/cu cm at 20 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.) CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 91st ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press Inc., 2010-2011, p. 4-56
Percent in saturated air: 12.1% (20 °C); density of saturated air: 1.32 (20 °C)measured · Clayton, G. D. and F. E. Clayton (eds.). Patty's Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology: Volume 2A, 2B, 2C: Toxicology. 3rd ed. New York: John Wiley Sons, 1981-1982., p. 4862
2.0 g/cm³measured · reference compound database
Relative density of the vapour/air-mixture at 20 °C (air = 1): 1.53measured · reference compound database
2.015 @ 20°Cmeasured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
92 mmHg at 68 °F (EPA, 1998)measured · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1998. Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHS) Chemical Profiles and Emergency First Aid Guides. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
122.0 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
Vapor pressure = 115.6 mm Hg at 25 C /extrapolated/measured · Perry RH, Green D; Perry's Handbook of Physical and Chemical Data 6th ed. NY,NY: McGraw-Hill (1984)
122 mm Hg at 25 °Cmeasured · Ohe S; Computer Aided Data Book of Vapor Pressure. Data Book Publ Co: Tokyo, Japan (1976)
Vapor pressure, kPa at 25 °C: 16.2measured · reference compound database
122 [mm Hg] @25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database

Calculated properties

Derived from the structure rather than from a sample. These are reproducible and they are not measurements: a calculated partition coefficient and a measured one can differ by a long way, and where both exist they are listed apart on purpose.

logP
0.8624calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
23.79 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
0calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can donate a hydrogen bond.
H-bond acceptors
1calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
0calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
14.54 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
0calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.4488calculated · chemistry engine
Quantitative estimate of drug-likeness (0–1).

What it is made of

Elements

Percentages are of the molecular weight above, worked out the same way the molar mass calculator does it.

Structure

Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
3
Total atoms, hydrogen included
3
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Nitrile

    A carbon–nitrogen triple bond.

  • Halide (C–X)

    A halogen atom attached to carbon.

Matched by structural pattern, not by a measurement.

The molecule in three dimensions

Rotate and inspect the atoms. Loaded only when you ask, so the page stays light.

The drawing above is a diagram of what is bonded to what. A molecule is not flat, and the model here is one low-energy shape generated from the connectivity — useful for seeing which groups can reach each other, and not a measured structure. A real sample is a population of conformations, interconverting.

Reactions it appears in

No documented reaction with a written procedure and a source involves Cyanogen Bromide yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it Bromine cyanide, Cyanobromide, Bromocyanide, Bromocyanogen, carbononitridic bromide, Bromocyan, Campilit, Cyanogen monobromide, Bromure de cyanogen, Bromocyane, Cyanogen bromide (BrCN), Cyanogen bromide ((CN)Br).

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Cyanogen Bromide has a page here yet.

Where these values came from

  • chemistry engine

    structure perception

compound record.

What this page does not claim

The identifiers are what the source record holds, copied rather than recomputed. Measured values are reported as their source gave them, units and all; calculated values are marked as calculated and are not measurements. Where a field is absent the page says so, because a blank cell reads as a zero and a guessed value reads as a fact.

Nothing here is a hazard assessment, a purity statement or advice about handling a sample. A flash point quoted from a safety database is a number somebody published, not a judgement by us about whether this molecule is safe for what you intend.