PRODUCT Properties
Boiling point: | 146-147 °C14 mm Hg(lit.) |
Density | 1.142 g/mL at 25 °C(lit.) |
refractive index | n |
Flash point: | 146-147°C/14mm |
form | clear liquid |
color | Colorless to Yellow to Green |
Water Solubility | Not miscible or difficult to mix in water. |
BRN | 2042078 |
CAS DataBase Reference | 5219-61-4(CAS DataBase Reference) |
Description and Uses
Applications include, electron-deficient aromatics undergo vicarious nucleophilic substitution (VNS) reactions with the anion. Thus the molecule is equivalent to an acetonitrile anion synthon with thiophenate as the leaving group. For example, in the presence of solid NaOH in DMSO, nitrobenzene gives predominantly 4-nitrophenylacetonitrile, along with some of the 2-isomer.