6-Mercaptopurine
C5H4N4S, 152.182 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.
Identifiers
- Molecular formula
- C₅H₄N₄S
- Molecular weight
- 152.182 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 152.015667 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 7H-purine-6-thiol
- Sc1ncnc2nc[nH]c12
- InChI=1S/C5H4N4S/c10-5-3-4(7-1-6-3)8-2-9-5/h1-2H,(H2,6,7,8,9,10)
- GLVAUDGFNGKCSF-UHFFFAOYSA-N
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.
- Melting Point
- 313 dec °C
- 308 °C (decomposes)
- 313 °C
- Solubility
- 68500 mg/L
- In water, 6848 mg/L at 30 °C
- Insoluble in water
- Soluble in boiling water (1 in 100)
- Soluble in hot alcohol and dilute alkali solutions; slightly soluble in dilute sulfuric acid
- Soluble in alkaline solutions (with decomposition), hot ethanol and ethanol (1 in 950); slightly soluble in dilute sulphuric acid; almost insoluble in water, acetone, chloroform and diethyl ether.
- 7.35e-01 g/L
- 22.5 [ug/mL] (The mean of the results at pH 7.4)
- LogP
- 0.01
- log Kow = 0.01 at pH 7.4
- -0.4
- 0.01
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.
- Molecular weight
- 152.18 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 152.01566732 Da
- XLogP3
- 0.7
- Polar surface area
- 55.5 Ų
- Complexity
- 131
- H-bond donors
- 2
- H-bond acceptors
- 4
- logP
- 0.6416
- Topological polar surface area
- 54.46 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 2
- H-bond acceptors
- 4
- Rotatable bonds
- 0
- Molar refractivity
- 38.9357 cm³/mol
- Fraction sp³ carbons
- 0
- QED drug-likeness
- 0.43
What it is made of
Structure
- Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
- 10
- Total atoms, hydrogen included
- 14
- Rings
- 2
- Aromatic rings
- 2
- Stereocentres
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
Functional groups
Thiol
Aromatic ring
Aromatic ring (five-membered)
The molecule in three dimensions
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
Other names for it
The systematic name on this record is 7H-purine-6-thiol.
The sources also call it mercaptopurine, Mercapurin, 6-Thiopurine, 6-Thioxopurine, 9H-Purine-6-thiol, 6-Mercaptopurin, Puri-Nethol, 6-Thiohypoxanthine, 1,9-dihydro-6H-purine-6-thione, Mercaptopurin, 3,7-dihydropurine-6-thione, Hypoxanthine, thio-.
Structurally related
Molecules sharing this formula, or whose fingerprint is at least 40% similar to this one. Similarity is Tanimoto on Morgan fingerprints over this library only — it is a measure of structural overlap, not of how alike they behave.
Where these values came from
chemistry engine
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.