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3-Methylpyridine

C6H7N, 93.129 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

Organic — aromatic compound8 measured properties

Drawn from the SMILES. It shows how the atoms are connected — not a photograph of a molecule, and not its shape in space.

Identifiers

Molecular formula
C₆H₇N
Molecular weight
93.129 g/mol
Exact mass
93.057849 g/mol
SMILES
Cc1cccnc1
InChI
InChI=1S/C6H7N/c1-6-3-2-4-7-5-6/h2-5H,1H3
InChIKey
ITQTTZVARXURQS-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Both are open without an account.

Measured properties

Values somebody obtained from a sample and published. Where two sources report the same property they are both shown, in the units each used — a disagreement between them is information, and averaging it away would be inventing a number neither one gave.

Boiling Point
290 to 291 °F at 760 mmHg (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
144.1 °Cmeasured · PhysProp
144.1 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 94th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2013-2014, p. 3-394
143-144 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
144.1 °C @760 [mm Hg]measured · reference compound database
Melting Point
-0.9 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
-18.1 °Cmeasured · PhysProp
-18.1 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 94th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2013-2014, p. 3-394
-18 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-18.14 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Flash Point
97 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
38 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
37 °C (99 °F) (Closed cup)measured · Sigma-Aldrich; Material Safety Data Sheet for 3-Methylpyridine. Product Number: P42053, Version 4.6 (Revision Date 10/06/2014). Available from, as of October 8, 2014: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/safety-center.html
38 °C c.c.measured · reference compound database
Solubility
Very soluble (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
1000000 mg/L (at 25 °C)measured · KIRK-OTHMER ENCYCL CHEM TECH, 20:644 (1996)
Miscible with water at 20 °Cmeasured · Scriven EFV et al; Pyridine and Pyridine Derivatives. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. (1999-2014). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Online Posting Date: Dec 2, 2005.
Miscible with alcohol, ethermeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 1374
Very soluble in acetone; soluble in carbon tetrachloridemeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 94th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2013-2014, p. 3-394
Solubility in water: misciblemeasured · reference compound database
Density
0.957 (USCG, 1999) - Less dense than water; will floatmeasured · U.S. Coast Guard. 1999. Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) - Hazardous Chemical Data. Commandant Instruction 16465.12C. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
0.9566 at 20 °C/4 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 94th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2013-2014, p. 3-394
Relative density (water = 1): 0.96measured · reference compound database
0.9613 @ 20°Cmeasured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
6.05 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
6.05 mm Hg at 25 °Cmeasured · Chao J et al; J Phys Chem Ref Data 12: 1033-63 (1983)
Vapor pressure, kPa at 20 °C: 0.6measured · reference compound database
6.05 [mm Hg] @25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
LogP
1.2measured · HANSCH,C ET AL. (1995)
log Kow = 1.20measured · Hansch, C., Leo, A., D. Hoekman. Exploring QSAR - Hydrophobic, Electronic, and Steric Constants. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society., 1995., p. 20
1.20measured · reference compound database
1.19measured · reference compound database
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.5043 at@ 24 °C/Dmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 1374

Calculated properties

Derived from the structure rather than from a sample. These are reproducible and they are not measurements: a calculated partition coefficient and a measured one can differ by a long way, and where both exist they are listed apart on purpose.

logP
1.39calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
12.89 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
0calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can donate a hydrogen bond.
H-bond acceptors
1calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
0calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
28.974 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
0.1667calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.472calculated · chemistry engine
Quantitative estimate of drug-likeness (0–1).

What it is made of

Elements

Percentages are of the molecular weight above, worked out the same way the molar mass calculator does it.

Structure

Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
7
Total atoms, hydrogen included
14
Rings
1
Aromatic rings
1
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Aromatic ring

    A flat six-membered ring with delocalised electrons.

Matched by structural pattern, not by a measurement.

The molecule in three dimensions

Rotate and inspect the atoms. Loaded only when you ask, so the page stays light.

The drawing above is a diagram of what is bonded to what. A molecule is not flat, and the model here is one low-energy shape generated from the connectivity — useful for seeing which groups can reach each other, and not a measured structure. A real sample is a population of conformations, interconverting.

Reactions it appears in

No documented reaction with a written procedure and a source involves 3-Methylpyridine yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it 3-Picoline, beta-Picoline, Pyridine, 3-methyl-, m-Picoline, m-Methylpyridine, beta-Methylpyridine, .beta.-Picoline, .beta.-Methylpyridine, 3-Mepy, B-Picoline, 3-Methyl pyridine, meta-Methylpyridine.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to 3-Methylpyridine has a page here yet.

Where these values came from

  • chemistry engine

    structure perception

No matching record was found in the currently indexed sources (reference compound database)..

What this page does not claim

The identifiers are what the source record holds, copied rather than recomputed. Measured values are reported as their source gave them, units and all; calculated values are marked as calculated and are not measurements. Where a field is absent the page says so, because a blank cell reads as a zero and a guessed value reads as a fact.

Nothing here is a hazard assessment, a purity statement or advice about handling a sample. A flash point quoted from a safety database is a number somebody published, not a judgement by us about whether this molecule is safe for what you intend.