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Diazanaphthalene

any heterocyclic compound having a structure based on naphthalene in which two carbon atoms are replaced by a nitrogen heteroatoms

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2023
Entity authorityQ13576540
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Diazanaphthalenes are a class of aromatic heterocyclic chemical compounds that have the formula C8H6N2. They consist of a naphthalene double ring in which two of the carbon atoms have been replaced with nitrogen atoms. There are ten positional isomers, which differ by the locations of the nitrogen atoms.

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