Ammonium Cyanide - Wikipedia
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| Chemical formula | [NH4]CN |
| Molar mass | 44.0559 g/mol |
| Appearance | colourless crystalline solid |
| Density | 1.02 g/cm3 |
| Melting point | 36 °C (decomp.) |
| Solubility in water | very soluble |
| Solubility | very soluble in alcohol |
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| Crystal structure | cubic |
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Ammonium cyanide is an unstable inorganic compound with the chemical formula NH4CN. It is the ammonium salt of hydrogen cyanide. It consists of ammonium cations NH+4 and cyanide anions CN−. Its structural formula is [NH4]+[C≡N]−.
Uses
[edit]Ammonium cyanide is generally used in organic synthesis.[citation needed] Being unstable, it is not shipped or sold commercially.
Preparation
[edit]Ammonium cyanide is prepared by combining solutions of hydrogen cyanide and ammonia:[citation needed]
HCN + NH3 → NH4CNIt may be prepared by the reaction of calcium cyanide and ammonium carbonate:[citation needed]
Ca(CN)2 + (NH4)2CO3 → 2 NH4CN + CaCO3In dry state, ammonium cyanide is made by heating a mixture of potassium cyanide or potassium ferrocyanide with ammonium chloride and condensing the vapours into ammonium cyanide crystals:[citation needed]
KCN + NH4Cl → NH4CN + KClReactions
[edit]Ammonium cyanide decomposes to ammonia and hydrogen cyanide, often forming a black polymer of hydrogen cyanide:[1]
NH4CN → NH3 + HCNIt undergoes salt metathesis reaction in solution with a number of metal salts to form metal–cyanide complexes.
Reaction with ketones and aldehydes yield aminonitriles, as in the first step of the Strecker amino acid synthesis:
NH4CN + (CH3)2CO → (CH3)2C(NH2)CN + H2OToxicity
[edit] Further information: Cyanide poisoningAmmonium cyanide is highly toxic.
Notes
[edit]- ^ Matthews, Clifford N (1991). "Hydrogen cyanide polymerization: A preferred cosmochemical pathway". Bioastronomy: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life—The Exploration Broadens. Lecture Notes in Physics. Vol. 390. pp. 85–87. doi:10.1007/3-540-54752-5_195. ISBN 978-3-540-54752-5.
References
[edit]- A. F. Wells, Structural Inorganic Chemistry, 5th ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1984.
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