Crystal structure of 2-diazo-imidazole-4,5-dicarbo-nitrile

Damon A Parrish; Stephanie Kramer; G Kenneth Windler; David E Chavez; Philip W Leonard

doi:10.1107/S2056989015010944

Crystal structure of 2-diazo-imidazole-4,5-dicarbo-nitrile

Acta Crystallogr E Crystallogr Commun. 2015 Jun 17;71(Pt 7):o491. doi: 10.1107/S2056989015010944. eCollection 2015 Jul 1.

Authors

Damon A Parrish¹, Stephanie Kramer¹, G Kenneth Windler², David E Chavez², Philip W Leonard²

Affiliations

¹ CBMSE, Code 6910, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA.
² PO Box 1663 MS C920, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.

Abstract

In the title compound, C5N6, all the atoms are approximately coplanar. In the crystal, mol-ecules are packed with short contact distances of 2.885 (2) (between the diazo N atom connected to the ring and a cyano N atom on a neighboring mol-ecule) and 3.012 (2) Å (between the terminal diazo N atom and an N atom of a neighboring imidazole ring).

Keywords: carbonitrile; crystal structure; diazo; imidazole.