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Formamidine

PubChem CID
68047
Structure
Formamidine_small.png
Formamidine_3D_Structure.png
Molecular Formula
Synonyms
  • Formamidine
  • Methanimidamide
  • formimidamide
  • imidoformamide
  • Methanoic acid amidine
Molecular Weight
44.056 g/mol
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Dates
  • Create:
    2005-03-26
  • Modify:
    2025-01-11
Description
Formamidine is the smallest member of the class of carboxamidines being formic acid with the O and OH groups from the carboxy function replaced by NH and NH2 groups respectively. The parent of the class of formamidines. It has a role as an EC 1.14.13.39 (nitric oxide synthase) inhibitor. It is a carboxamidine, a member of formamidines and a one-carbon compound. It is functionally related to a formic acid.

1 Structures

1.1 2D Structure

Chemical Structure Depiction
Formamidine.png

1.2 3D Conformer

2 Names and Identifiers

2.1 Computed Descriptors

2.1.1 IUPAC Name

methanimidamide
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2.1.2 InChI

InChI=1S/CH4N2/c2-1-3/h1H,(H3,2,3)
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2.1.3 InChIKey

PNKUSGQVOMIXLU-UHFFFAOYSA-N
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2.1.4 SMILES

C(=N)N
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2.2 Molecular Formula

CH4N2
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2.3 Other Identifiers

2.3.1 CAS

6313-33-3

2.3.3 UNII

2.3.4 ChEBI ID

2.3.5 DSSTox Substance ID

2.3.6 HMDB ID

2.3.7 Metabolomics Workbench ID

2.3.8 Nikkaji Number

2.3.9 Wikidata

2.4 Synonyms

2.4.1 MeSH Entry Terms

  • formamidine
  • formamidine acetate
  • formamidine hydrochloride
  • formamidinium
  • methanimidamide

2.4.2 Depositor-Supplied Synonyms

3 Chemical and Physical Properties

3.1 Computed Properties

Property Name
Molecular Weight
Property Value
44.056 g/mol
Reference
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Property Name
XLogP3-AA
Property Value
-0.8
Reference
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Property Name
Hydrogen Bond Donor Count
Property Value
2
Reference
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Property Name
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count
Property Value
1
Reference
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Property Name
Rotatable Bond Count
Property Value
0
Reference
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Property Name
Exact Mass
Property Value
44.037448136 Da
Reference
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Property Name
Monoisotopic Mass
Property Value
44.037448136 Da
Reference
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Property Name
Topological Polar Surface Area
Property Value
49.9 Ų
Reference
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Property Name
Heavy Atom Count
Property Value
3
Reference
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Property Name
Formal Charge
Property Value
0
Reference
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Property Name
Complexity
Property Value
10.3
Reference
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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
1
Reference
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Property Name
Compound Is Canonicalized
Property Value
Yes
Reference
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4 Spectral Information

4.1 1D NMR Spectra

1D NMR Spectra

4.1.1 15N NMR Spectra

Copyright
Copyright © 2016-2024 W. Robien, Inst. of Org. Chem., Univ. of Vienna. All Rights Reserved.
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6 Chemical Vendors

7 Literature

7.1 Consolidated References

7.2 NLM Curated PubMed Citations

7.3 Springer Nature References

7.4 Thieme References

7.5 Wiley References

7.6 Chemical Co-Occurrences in Literature

7.7 Chemical-Gene Co-Occurrences in Literature

7.8 Chemical-Disease Co-Occurrences in Literature

8 Patents

8.1 Depositor-Supplied Patent Identifiers

8.2 WIPO PATENTSCOPE

8.3 Chemical Co-Occurrences in Patents

8.4 Chemical-Disease Co-Occurrences in Patents

8.5 Chemical-Gene Co-Occurrences in Patents

9 Interactions and Pathways

9.1 Protein Bound 3D Structures

10 Classification

10.1 MeSH Tree

10.2 ChEBI Ontology

10.3 ChemIDplus

10.4 NORMAN Suspect List Exchange Classification

10.5 EPA DSSTox Classification

10.6 MolGenie Organic Chemistry Ontology

11 Information Sources

  1. CAS Common Chemistry
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  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. FDA Global Substance Registration System (GSRS)
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    https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/about-website/website-policies#linking
  5. ChEBI
  6. Human Metabolome Database (HMDB)
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    http://www.hmdb.ca/citing
  7. Japan Chemical Substance Dictionary (Nikkaji)
  8. Metabolomics Workbench
  9. NMRShiftDB
  10. SpectraBase
  11. Springer Nature
  12. Thieme Chemistry
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  13. Wikidata
  14. Wiley
  15. PubChem
  16. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
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  17. NORMAN Suspect List Exchange
    LICENSE
    Data: CC-BY 4.0; Code (hosted by ECI, LCSB): Artistic-2.0
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    NORMAN Suspect List Exchange Classification
    https://www.norman-network.com/nds/SLE/
  18. MolGenie
    MolGenie Organic Chemistry Ontology
    https://github.com/MolGenie/ontology/
  19. PATENTSCOPE (WIPO)
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