methyl isocyanide

Methyl isocyanide is mainly used for making 5-membered heterocyclic rings.

Methyl isocyanide is useful for the preparation of diverse heterocycles.

Methyl isocyanide or isocyanomethane is an organic compound and a member of the isocyanide family.

NMF is the precursor to methyl isocyanide, a ligand in coordination chemistry.

Experiments have been made to assess the importance of radical chain effects in thermal isomerization of methyl isocyanide.

A classic prototype reaction in the study of unimolecular reactions is the isomerization of methyl isocyanide.

Thermal explosions of methyl isocyanide have been studied in spherical reaction vessels with volumes in the range 300–5000 ml.

Methyl isocyanide was first prepared Gautier by reaction of silver cyanide with methyl iodide.

One of his complexes, since also called Chugaev's salt, was the product of the reaction of platinum(II) salts with methyl isocyanide and hydrazine.

We suggest that the methyl isocyanide isomerization is potentially the best reaction system against which to test thermal explosion theories, but at the present time certain kinetic, thermochemical, and thermodynamic data are not available with sufficient accuracy.

Thermal explosion limits have been measured in the temperature range 285–351 °C for methyl isocyanide and at 351 °C for mixtures of methyl isocyanide and methyl cyanide.

By the use of an improved interpolation method for the rate constants for the thermal isomerisation of methyl isocyanide, it is found that a pattern emerges in the previously unexplained scaling behaviour of the critical explosion parameter (δc).

Some reactions involving simple reagents include: with phosgene to methyl isocyanate, with carbon disulfide and sodium hydroxide to the sodium methyldithiocarbamate, with chloroform and base to methyl isocyanide and with ethylene oxide to methylethanolamines.

The thermal decompositions of cyclobutane, cyclopropane, ethyl isocyanide, ethyl chloride, and methyl isocyanide are examined in detail, and it is shown that not only is the present theory much easier to use than is conventional RRKM theory, but also that it gives better results.

The thermal isomerisation of methyl isocyanide has been measured in the rigorous absence of self-heating over a temperature range from 120–320 °C and at pressures from 2–100 torr. Expressions are given for the rate constant as functions of both temperature and pressure in these ranges of the two variables.