Carbon diselenide

Carbon compounds: carbon diselenide

The carbon in carbon diselenide formally is in the oxidation state 4.

Carbon diselenide

• Formula as often written: CSe₂
• Hill system formula: C₁Se₂
• CAS registry number: [506-80-9]
• Formula weight: 169.931
• Class: selenide

Synonyms

• carbon diselenide
• carbon(IV) selenide
• carbon selenide

Physical properties

• Colour: yellow
• Appearance: liquid
• Melting point: -45°C
• Boiling point: 125°C
• Density: 2660 kg m^-3

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Element analysis

Element percentages for the elements in carbon diselenide

Element	%
C	7.07
Se	92.93

Synthesis

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Solid state structure

• Geometry of carbon: 2 coordinate: linear
• Prototypical structure:

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the CSe₂ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: C₁Se₂

mass  %
160   0.0 
161   0.0 
162   0.6 
163   0.1 
164   4.3 __
165   0.5 
166  17.7 _________
167   1.4 _
168  50.6 _________________________
169   3.2 __
170  86.5 ___________________________________________
171   1.4 _
172 100.0 __________________________________________________
173   1.1 _
174  31.5 ________________
175   0.3 
176   2.9 _
177   0.0 

References

The data on these compounds pages are assembled and adapted from the primary literature and several other sources including the following.

• R.T. Sanderson in Chemical Periodicity, Reinhold, New York, USA, 1960.
• N.N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw in Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd edition, Butterworth, UK, 1997.
• F.A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, C.A. Murillo, and M. Bochmann, in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• A.F. Trotman-Dickenson, (ed.) in Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, Pergamon, Oxford, UK, 1973.
• R.W.G. Wyckoff, in Crystal Structures, volume 1, Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, 1963.
• A.R.West in Basic solid state chemistry Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• A.F. Wells in Structural inorganic chemistry, 4th edition, Oxford, UK, 1975.
• J.D.H. Donnay, (ed.) in Crystal data determinative tables, ACA monograph number 5, American Crystallographic Association, USA, 1963.
• D.R. Lide, (ed.) in Chemical Rubber Company handbook of chemistry and physics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 77th edition, 1996.
• J.W. Mellor in A comprehensive treatise on inorganic and theoretical chemistry, volumes 1-16, Longmans, London, UK, 1922-1937.
• J.E. Macintyre (ed.) in Dictionary of inorganic compounds, volumes 1-3, Chapman & Hall, London, UK, 1992.

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