vinyl cyanide

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vinyl cyanide (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) The compound acrylonitrile.
    • 2017 July 28, Mareen Y. Palmer, “ALMA detection and astrobiological potential of vinyl cyanide on Titan”, in Science Advances[1], volume 3, number 7:
      These simulations suggest that vinyl cyanide (C2H3CN; also known as acrylonitrile or propenenitrile) would be the best candidate species for the formation of these hypothesized cell-like membranes, known as “azotosomes” (2).