Carbon nitride

Covalent network compounds

These materials are organic semiconductors. Due to its hydrogen-bonding motifs and electron-rich properties, this carbon material is considered a potential candidate for material applications in carbon supplementation.

• Beta carbon nitride - a solid with a formula , which is predicted to be harder than diamond.

• Graphitic carbon nitride - , with important catalytic and sensor properties.

• Dicyanodiazomethane , the only isomer studied experimentally

• Tricyanamide - monomer (has never been prepared yet)

• Dicyanocarbodiimide - another monomer (was detected in products of photolysis of triazido-s-triazine).

• • a combined triazole and triazine framework.

• MCN-12 () and MCN-13 ().

Azafullerenes

• Azafullerenes are a class of heterofullerenes in which the element substituting for carbon is nitrogen. Examples include (biazafullerenyl), (diaza[60]fullerene), (triaza[60]fullerene) and .

Cyanofullerenes

• Cyanofullerenes are a class of modified fullerenes in which cyano- groups are attached to a fullerene skeleton. These have the formula , where n takes the values 1 to 9.

Cyanogen

• Cyanogen - ()
• Isocyanogen - ()
• Diisocyanogen - ()
• Paracyanogen - a cyanogen polymer,
• Paraisocyanogen - a cyanogen polymer,

Percyanoalkynes, -alkenes and -alkanes

• dicyanoacetylene - or , also called carbon subnitride or but-2-ynedinitrile
• tetracyanoethylene - or
• tetracyanomethane - or
• 2,2-diisocyanopropanedinitrile - or also called dicyano(diisocyano)methane
• hexacyanoethane - or
• hexacyanocyclopropane - or cyclo-
• hexacyanobutadiene - or

Dicyanopolyynes

Dicyanopolyynes are compounds with the chemical formula . They are composed of a chain of carbon atoms with alternating single and triple bonds, terminated by nitrogen atoms. Although not polyynes, cyanogen (n = 0) and dicyanoacetylene (n = 1) fit within this series.

• or , dicyanobutadiyne or dicyanodiacetylene
• or , dicyanohexatriyne or dicyanotriacetylene
• or , dicyanooxatetrayne or dicyanotetraacetylene
• or , dicyanodecapentayne or dicyanopentaacetylene
• or , dicyanododecahexayne or dicyanohexaacetylene
• or , dicyanotetradecaheptayne or dicyanoheptaacetylene
• or , dicyanohexadecaoctayne or dicyanooctaacetylene
• or , dicyanooctadecanonayne or dicyanononaacetylene
• or , dicyanoicosadecayne or dicyanodecaacetylene

Perazidoalkynes, -alkenes and -alkanes

• tetraazidomethane - or

Percyanoheterocycles

• pentacyanopyridine -
• tetracyanopyrazine -
• tricyanotriazine -
• tetracyano-bitriazine -
• dicyanotetrazine -
• hexacyanotrisimidazole -
• hexacyanohexaazatriphenylene -

Aromatic cyanocarbons

• hexacyanobenzene - or
• octacyanonaphthalene - or
• decacyanoanthracene - or

Other compounds

• cyanonitrene - or (one of the nitrogens is univalent)
• azodicarbonitrile - or , cis and trans isomers
• cyanogen azide - or
• 1-diazidocarbamoyl-5-azidotetrazole -
• 2,2′-azobis(5-azidotetrazole) -
• triazidotriazine (cyanuric triazide) - ()
• triazidoheptazine - ()
• tricyanomethanimine (dicyanomethylene-cyanamide) - or
• diazidodicyanoethylene - or and , cis and trans
• dicyanodiazomethane - or
• • or (and isomers cyanoisocyanocarbene , diisocyanocarbene , 3-cyano-2H-azirenylidene and 3-isocyano-2H-azirenylidene)
• 1,3,5-triazido-2,4,6-tricyanobenzene - ()
• nitrogen tricyanide and carbon bis(cyanamide) , two formal monomers of polymeric

Anions and functional groups

• cyanide - ion, cyanide and isocyanide functional groups
• dicyanamide - or
• tricyanomethanide - or
• pentacyanoethanide - or
• pentacyanopropenide (pentacyanoallyl anion) -
• 2-dicyanomethylene-1,1,3,3-tetracyanopropanediide
• tricyanomelaminate anion -
• melonate -
• anions - (n odd) and (n even)
• cyanoacetlyide - or
• cyanobutadiynylide - or
• cyanopolyynide anions - (n odd)

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