The title compound, [CuI(C(18)H(15)P)(3)]·C(2)H(3)N, was obtained from the reaction of triphenyl-phosphine and copper(I) iodide in acetonitrile. The monomeric form of the complex has slightly distorted coordination of Cu by the I atom and three P atoms. The crystal structure is stabilized by C-H⋯π inter-actions between phenyl H atoms and phenyl rings. In addition, the complex mol-ecules exhibit...

Intraparticle mass transfer processes of Phenol Blue (PB) in single octadecylsilyl (ODS)-silica gel microparticles in acetonitrile-water were analyzed by microcapillary manipulation and microabsorption methods. An absorption maximum of PB, the sorption isotherm parameters, and the sorption rate in the microparticle system were highly dependent on the percentage of acetonitrile in solution. The ...

Novel colorimetric receptors for fluoride ion sensing containing anthraquinone as a chromogenic signaling unit and imidazo-2,2'-bithiophene binding sites are reported. Well-defined color change was observed upon addition of fluoride ions to acetonitrile solutions of receptors 2. Compounds 2a-c, deprotonated after fluoride ion addition, were studied as metal ion chemosensors in the presence of Z...

Reaction of [Ir(COD)(py-I(t)Bu)](+) (py-I(t)Bu = 3-tert-butyl-1-picolylimidazol-2-ylidene) with acetonitrile results in reversible intramolecular C-H bond activation of the NHC ligand and formation of [Ir(η(2):η(1)-C8H13)(py-I(t)Bu')(NCMe)](+). Coordinated COD acts as an internal hydride acceptor and acetonitrile coordination offsets the otherwise unfavourable thermodynamics of the process.

The study of the rate and rate constants in the alcoholysis of n-caproyl chloride in acetone and acetonitrile, reveals that SN2 mechanism is more favourable than SN1. A plot of logarithm of rate constant against the logarithm of molar concentration of alcohol gives a straight line with a slope close to 1.1 and that with respect to water is 1.5 both in acetone and acetonitrile. This shows that i...

This work reports the first infrared satellite remote-sensing measurements of acetonitrile (CH3CN) in the Earth’s atmosphere using solar occultation measurements made by the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier transform spectrometer (ACE-FTS) between 2004 and 2011. The retrieval scheme uses new quantitative laboratory spectroscopic measurements of acetonitrile (Harrison and Bernath, 2012)....