Toxic if inhaled. Causes respiratory tract irritation
Eye hazards
Causes eye irritation
Skin hazards
May be harmful if absorbed through skin. Causes skin irritation.
GHS labelling:
Pictograms
Signal word
Danger
Hazard statements
H225, H301, H315, H331, H335, H401, H412
Precautionary statements
P210, P261, P273, P301+P310, P311
NFPA 704 (fire diamond)
2
3
0
Flash point
14.44 °C (57.99 °F; 287.59 K)
Safety data sheet (SDS)
External MSDS
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Chemical compound
Acetyl cyanide is the organic compound with the formula CH3C(O)CN. It is an acyl cyanide. Acetyl cyanide is a colorless liquid.[2]
^ abNomenclature of Organic Chemistry : IUPAC Recommendations and Preferred Names 2013 (Blue Book). Cambridge: The Royal Society of Chemistry. 2014. pp. 796–797, 903. doi:10.1039/9781849733069-FP001. ISBN 978-0-85404-182-4.
^Morris, Joel (2001). "Acetyl Cyanide". Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. doi:10.1002/047084289X.ra026. ISBN 0-471-93623-5.
Acetylcyanide is the organic compound with the formula CH3C(O)CN. It is an acyl cyanide. Acetylcyanide is a colorless liquid. Its structure was determined...
Examples include acetylcyanide, formyl cyanide, and oxalyl dicyanide. Acyl cyanides are reagents in organic synthesis. Classically acyl cyanides are produced...
or bleach), or by the hydrolysis of acetylcyanide, formed by reaction of acetyl chloride with potassium cyanide:[citation needed] CH3COCl + KCN → CH3COCN...
C3H3NO (molar mass: 69.06 g/mol, exact mass: 69.02146 u) may refer to: Acetylcyanide Isoxazole Oxazole Propiolic acid amide This set index page lists chemical...
code E260 as an acidity regulator and as a condiment. In biochemistry, the acetyl group, derived from acetic acid, is fundamental to all forms of life. When...
group are not called nitriles, but cyanides instead. Though both nitriles and cyanides can be derived from cyanide salts, most nitriles are not nearly...
symptoms despite oxygen therapy. It has previously been used for treating cyanide poisoning and urinary tract infections, but this use is no longer recommended...
formic acid or formyl acetyl anhydride.or from the Ritter reaction of alkenes (and other sources of carbocations) and hydrogen cyanide. In the carbylamine...
generic medication. Common side effects include low blood pressure and cyanide toxicity. Other serious side effects include methemoglobinemia. It is not...
fatty acid biosynthesis along with acetyl CoA. Malonyl CoA is formed there from acetyl CoA by the action of acetyl-CoA carboxylase, and the malonate is...
system, results in much lower cyanide concentrations than controls and greatly reduced toxicity of MeAN, indicating that cyanide production is indeed the main...
methemoglobin. Methemoglobin in turn binds to cyanide (CN) creating cyanmethemoglobin, effectively removing cyanide from the complex IV of the electron transport...
C(CH2OH)4 and formate. In a Strecker reaction, acetaldehyde condenses with cyanide and ammonia to give, after hydrolysis, the amino acid alanine. Acetaldehyde...
the specificity for acetyl-CoA and succinyl-CoA is dictated by a single residue. The physiological basis for the preference of acetyl-CoA or succinyl-CoA...
newly reduced by NADH to catechol. The catechol is then metabolized to acetyl CoA and succinyl CoA, used by organisms mainly in the citric acid cycle...
enzyme, as is the case in Rhodospirillum rubrum, or can form a cluster with acetyl-CoA synthase as has been shown in M. thermoacetica. When acting in concert...
of 1,3-butadiene. Diene-containing fatty acids are biosynthesized from acetyl CoA. α,ω-Dienes have the formula (CH2)n(CH=CH2)2. They are prepared industrially...
Gay-Lussac found evidence for the cyanide radical in 1815 in his work on hydrogen cyanide and a number of cyanide salts he discovered. He also isolated...
inflammation of the conjunctiva Acetyl, a functional group in chemistry Actinium, symbol Ac, a chemical element Hydrogen cyanide, also called as AC in chemical...
for cyanide poisoning. It was thought to act as an oxidant, to induce the formation of methemoglobin. Methemoglobin in turn can sequester cyanide as cyanomethemoglobin...
product, a protection with acetyl chloride is required: The reaction to form 4-bromoaniline is to protect the amine with acetyl chloride, then hydrolyse...
results suggest that the LUCA was anaerobic with a Wood–Ljungdahl (reductive Acetyl-CoA) pathway, nitrogen- and carbon-fixing, thermophilic. Its cofactors suggest...
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