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Mercuric nitrate monohydrate

PubChem CID
3084029
Structure
Mercuric nitrate monohydrate_small.png
Molecular Formula
Synonyms
  • 7783-34-8
  • Mercuric nitrate monohydrate
  • Mercury(II) nitrate monohydrate
  • Mercury(II) nitrate hydrate
  • UNII-YJ09EDI5UY
Molecular Weight
342.62 g/mol
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Dates
  • Create:
    2005-08-09
  • Modify:
    2025-01-11
See also: Mercuric nitrate (annotation moved to).

1 Structures

1.1 2D Structure

Chemical Structure Depiction
Mercuric nitrate monohydrate.png

1.2 3D Status

Conformer generation is disallowed since MMFF94s unsupported element, mixture or salt

2 Names and Identifiers

2.1 Computed Descriptors

2.1.1 IUPAC Name

mercury(2+);dinitrate;hydrate
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2.1.2 InChI

InChI=1S/Hg.2NO3.H2O/c;2*2-1(3)4;/h;;;1H2/q+2;2*-1;
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2.1.3 InChIKey

KVICROHOONHSRH-UHFFFAOYSA-N
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2.1.4 SMILES

[N+](=O)([O-])[O-].[N+](=O)([O-])[O-].O.[Hg+2]
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2.2 Molecular Formula

H2HgN2O7
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2.3 Other Identifiers

2.3.1 CAS

7783-34-8

2.3.2 European Community (EC) Number

2.3.3 UNII

2.3.4 DSSTox Substance ID

2.3.5 Wikidata

2.3.6 Wikipedia

2.4 Synonyms

2.4.1 Depositor-Supplied Synonyms

3 Chemical and Physical Properties

3.1 Computed Properties

Property Name
Molecular Weight
Property Value
342.62 g/mol
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Property Name
Hydrogen Bond Donor Count
Property Value
1
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Property Name
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count
Property Value
7
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Property Name
Rotatable Bond Count
Property Value
0
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Property Name
Exact Mass
Property Value
343.956844 Da
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Property Name
Monoisotopic Mass
Property Value
343.956844 Da
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Property Name
Topological Polar Surface Area
Property Value
127 Ų
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Property Name
Heavy Atom Count
Property Value
10
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Property Name
Formal Charge
Property Value
0
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Property Name
Complexity
Property Value
18.8
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Property Name
Isotope Atom Count
Property Value
0
Reference
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Property Name
Defined Atom Stereocenter Count
Property Value
0
Reference
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Property Name
Undefined Atom Stereocenter Count
Property Value
0
Reference
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Property Name
Defined Bond Stereocenter Count
Property Value
0
Reference
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Property Name
Undefined Bond Stereocenter Count
Property Value
0
Reference
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Property Name
Covalently-Bonded Unit Count
Property Value
4
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Property Name
Compound Is Canonicalized
Property Value
Yes
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3.2 Experimental Properties

3.2.1 Physical Description

White or slightly yellow deliquescent solid with an odor of nitric acid; "Soluble in a small amount of water" [Merck Index] White crystalline solid; [Sigma-Aldrich MSDS]

3.3 Chemical Classes

Metals -> Mercury Compounds, Inorganic

4 Spectral Information

4.1 IR Spectra

4.1.1 FTIR Spectra

Copyright
Copyright © 1980, 1981-2024 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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6 Chemical Vendors

7 Use and Manufacturing

7.1 Uses

Sources/Uses
Used to make felt, in mercury fulminate, and to destroy phylloxera; [Merck Index]
Merck Index - O'Neil MJ, Heckelman PE, Dobbelaar PH, Roman KJ (eds). The Merck Index, An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals, 15th Ed. Cambridge, UK: The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013.

8 Safety and Hazards

8.1 Hazards Identification

8.1.1 GHS Classification

Pictogram(s)
Acute Toxic
Health Hazard
Environmental Hazard
Signal
Danger
GHS Hazard Statements

H300+H310+H330 (64.4%): Fatal if swallowed, in contact with skin or if inhaled [Danger Acute toxicity, oral; acute toxicity, dermal; acute toxicity, inhalation]

H300 (100%): Fatal if swallowed [Danger Acute toxicity, oral]

H310 (100%): Fatal in contact with skin [Danger Acute toxicity, dermal]

H330 (100%): Fatal if inhaled [Danger Acute toxicity, inhalation]

H373 (100%): May causes damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure [Warning Specific target organ toxicity, repeated exposure]

H400 (99.3%): Very toxic to aquatic life [Warning Hazardous to the aquatic environment, acute hazard]

H410 (100%): Very toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects [Warning Hazardous to the aquatic environment, long-term hazard]

Precautionary Statement Codes

P260, P262, P264, P270, P271, P273, P280, P284, P301+P316, P302+P352, P304+P340, P316, P319, P320, P321, P330, P361+P364, P391, P403+P233, P405, and P501

(The corresponding statement to each P-code can be found at the GHS Classification page.)

ECHA C&L Notifications Summary

Aggregated GHS information provided per 135 reports by companies from 8 notifications to the ECHA C&L Inventory. Each notification may be associated with multiple companies.

Information may vary between notifications depending on impurities, additives, and other factors. The percentage value in parenthesis indicates the notified classification ratio from companies that provide hazard codes. Only hazard codes with percentage values above 10% are shown.

8.1.2 Hazard Classes and Categories

Acute Tox. 2 (100%)

Acute Tox. 1 (100%)

Acute Tox. 2 (100%)

STOT RE 2 (100%)

Aquatic Acute 1 (99.3%)

Aquatic Chronic 1 (100%)

8.1.3 Hazards Summary

May cause irritation; May be fatal by ingestion, inhalation, and skin absorption; Targets the kidney, GI tract, nerves, and blood; [Sigma-Aldrich MSDS] See Mercuric nitrate. See Mercury, inorganic compounds and the linked occupational disease.

8.2 Exposure Control and Personal Protection

Maximum Allowable Concentration (MAK)
0.02 [mg/m3], as Hg, inhalable fraction[German Research Foundation (DFG)]

8.2.1 Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)

0.1 [mg/m3], as Hg

8.2.2 Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health (IDLH)

10.0 [mg/m3], as Hg

8.2.3 Threshold Limit Values (TLV)

0.02 [mg/m3], as Hg

8.3 Regulatory Information

The Australian Inventory of Industrial Chemicals
Chemical: Nitric acid, mercury(2+) salt, monohydrate
New Zealand EPA Inventory of Chemical Status
Mercury (II) nitrate, monohydrate: HSNO Approval: HSR004549 Approved with controls

9 Toxicity

9.1 Toxicological Information

9.1.1 Adverse Effects

Neurotoxin - Sensorimotor

10 Literature

10.1 Consolidated References

10.2 Springer Nature References

10.3 Chemical Co-Occurrences in Literature

11 Patents

11.1 Depositor-Supplied Patent Identifiers

11.2 WIPO PATENTSCOPE

11.3 Chemical Co-Occurrences in Patents

11.4 Chemical-Disease Co-Occurrences in Patents

11.5 Chemical-Gene Co-Occurrences in Patents

12 Classification

12.1 ChemIDplus

12.2 UN GHS Classification

12.3 EPA DSSTox Classification

12.4 MolGenie Organic Chemistry Ontology

13 Information Sources

  1. Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction Scheme (AICIS)
    Nitric acid, mercury(2+) salt, monohydrate
    https://services.industrialchemicals.gov.au/search-inventory/
  2. ChemIDplus
    ChemIDplus Chemical Information Classification
    https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/source/ChemIDplus
  3. EPA DSSTox
    CompTox Chemicals Dashboard Chemical Lists
    https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical-lists/
  4. European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
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    https://echa.europa.eu/web/guest/legal-notice
  5. FDA Global Substance Registration System (GSRS)
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  6. New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (EPA)
    LICENSE
    This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence.
    https://www.epa.govt.nz/about-this-site/general-copyright-statement/
  7. Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
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  8. SpectraBase
    MERCURY (II) NITRATE, MONOHYDRATE
    https://spectrabase.com/spectrum/39dCLydVBL7
  9. Springer Nature
  10. Wikidata
    mercuric nitrate monohydrate
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3877365
  11. Wikipedia
  12. PubChem
  13. GHS Classification (UNECE)
  14. MolGenie
    MolGenie Organic Chemistry Ontology
    https://github.com/MolGenie/ontology/
  15. PATENTSCOPE (WIPO)
  16. NCBI
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