In the title salt, C(9)H(9)N(2) (+)·Br(-), the ethynyl groups are nearly anti-parallel to each other [the angle between the two ethynyl groups is179.7 (2)°]. No classical hydrogen bonds or π-π inter-actions are observed. The mol-ecules are linked by C-H⋯Br hydrogen bonds. The bromide anions are involved in inter-actions with three H atoms.

An ethynyl-substituted nickel(II) phthalocyanine has been synthesised and its thermotropic properties studied; optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques revealed an unusual mesomorphic behaviour observed for the first time in phthalocyanine systems where each disk of the hexagonal columnar mesophase is formed by two ethynyl-substituted ph...

The hydrogen abstraction/acetylene addition (HACA) mechanism has long been viewed as a key route to aromatic ring growth of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in combustion systems. However, doubt has been drawn on the ubiquity of the mechanism by recent electronic structure calculations which predict that the HACA mechanism starting from the naphthyl radical preferentially forms acenaphth...

Plasma concentrations of ethynyl oestradiol and norethindrone in women were measured by radioimmunoassays after oral administration of 50 microng and 1000 microng respectively. The maximum values were obtained 1 h after administration. The calculated half-life was 6 1/2 h for ethynyl oestradiol and 7 h for norethindrone. At most 2-3% of the administered dose was present in the plasma at 1 h and...

The synthesis of polyethynyl aromatics as starting materials for the preparation of highly cross-linked organic solids containing high atom fractions of carbon is described. Treatment of bromoand iodoaromatic compounds with (trimethylsily1)acetylene (TMSA) in the presence of palladium(0) and copper(1) in amine solvents yields (trimethylsily1)ethynyl-substituted aromatics. The TMS protecting gro...

Langmuir films of 4-{[4-({4-[(trimethylsilyl)ethynyl]phenyl}ethynyl)phenyl]ethynyl} benzenaminium chloride ([1 H]Cl) undergo anion metathesis when assembled on an aqueous auric acid (HAuCl4 ) subphase. Subsequent transfer to solid supports gives well-formed Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) monolayers of [1 H]AuCl4 in which the trimethylsilyl group serves as the surface contacting group. Photoreduction of...

The title compound, C(14)H(9)N, is the second crystallographically characterized example of an ynamine with an H atom in the C-terminal position. There are two independent mol-ecules (A and B) in the asymmetric unit. The structures of both mol-ecules are essentially planar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.0312 and 0.0152 Å). The N-C(sp) bond lengths are 1.353 (4) and 1.350 (4) Å, and those of the acetyl-e...