Hexazine

Hexazine
Names
Systematic IUPAC name
Hexazine[1]
Other names
Hexaazabenzene
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChEBI
ChemSpider
1819
Properties
N6
Molar mass 84.04 g·mol−1
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Hexazine (also known as hexaazabenzene) is a hypothetical allotrope of nitrogen composed of 6 nitrogen atoms arranged in a ring-like structure analogous to that of benzene. It would be the final member of the azabenzene (azine) series, in which all of the methine groups of the benzene molecule have been replaced with nitrogen atoms. The two last members of this series, hexazine and pentazine, have not been observed, although all other members of the azine series have (such as pyridine, pyrimidine, pyridazine, pyrazine, triazines, and tetrazines).

Stability

The hexazine molecule bears a structural similarity to the very stable benzene molecule. Like benzene, it has been calculated that hexazine is likely an aromatic molecule. Despite this, it has yet to be synthesized. Additionally, it has been predicted computationally that the hexazine molecule is highly unstable, possibly due to the lone pairs on the nitrogen atoms, which may repel each other electrostatically and/or cause electron-donation to sigma antibonding orbitals.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Hexazine - PubChem Public Chemical Database". The PubChem Project. USA: National Center for Biotechnology Information.
  2. ↑ J. Fabian and E. Lewars (2004). "Azabenzenes (azines) — The nitrogen derivatives of benzene with one to six N atoms: Stability, homodesmotic stabilization energy, electron distribution, and magnetic ring current; a computational study" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 82 (1): 50–69. doi:10.1139/v03-178. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-03-29.
  • P. Saxe and H. F. Schaefer III (1983). "Cyclic D6h Hexaazabenzene-A Relative Minimum on the N6 Potential Energy Hypersurface?". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 105 (7): 1760–1764. doi:10.1021/ja00345a010.
  • H. Huber (1982). "Is Hexazine Stable?". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 21 (1): 64–65. doi:10.1002/anie.198200641.
  • M. N. Glukhovtsev and P. von Ragué Schleyer (1992). "Structures, bonding and energies of N[6] isomers". Chemical Physics Letters. 198 (6): 547–554. doi:10.1016/0009-2614(92)85029-A.
  • T.-K. Ha, R. Cimiraglia and M.T. Nguyen (1981). "Can hexazine (N6) be stable?". Chemical Physics Letters. 83 (2): 317–319. doi:10.1016/0009-2614(81)85471-1.
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