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Cysteamine

C2H7NS, 77.152 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

Organic — primary amine4 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
C₂H₇NS
Molecular weight
77.152 g/mol
Exact mass
77.02992 g/mol
SMILES
NCCS
InChI
InChI=1S/C2H7NS/c3-1-2-4/h4H,1-3H2
InChIKey
UFULAYFCSOUIOV-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
133.6±23.0measured · http://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.5834.html
Decomposesmeasured · Lide, D.R., G.W.A. Milne (eds.). Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds. Volume I. 3rd ed. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton ,FL. 1994., p. V3: 2661
Melting Point
67-71measured · https://www.chemicalbook.com/ChemicalProductProperty_US_CB9337215.aspx
97-98.5 °Cmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. 13th Edition, Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2001., p. 486
98 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility
Freely soluble in water.measured · https://www.chemicalbook.com/ChemicalProductProperty_US_CB9337215.aspx
Soluble in methanol, ethanolmeasured · Lewis, R.J. Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 10th ed. Volumes 1-3 New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1999., p. V2: 174
Freely soluble in alkaline mediameasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. 13th Edition, Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2001., p. 485
In water, soluble at 20 °C, value not givenmeasured · Yalkowsky SH, Dannenfelser RM; The AQUASOL dATAbASE of Aqueous Solubility. Ver 5. Tucson, AZ: Univ AZ, College of Pharmacy (1992)
LogP
0.1measured · https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40261-016-0405-z

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
-0.1251calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
26.02 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
2calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can donate a hydrogen bond.
H-bond acceptors
2calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
1calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
22.9074 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
1calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.419calculated · 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
4
Total atoms, hydrogen included
11
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Primary amine

    Nitrogen bonded to one carbon and two hydrogens.

  • Thiol

    An –SH group, the sulfur analogue of an alcohol.

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 Cysteamine yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it 2-Aminoethanethiol, Mercaptamine, Thioethanolamine, 2-Mercaptoethylamine, Mercamine, beta-Mercaptoethylamine, Decarboxycysteine, Cysteinamine, 2-Amino-1-ethanethiol, beta-Aminoethanethiol, Ethanethiol, 2-amino-, Mercaptoethylamine.

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

    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.