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Dimethylamine

C2H7N, 45.085 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

Organic — secondary amine9 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
C₂H₇N
Molecular weight
45.085 g/mol
Exact mass
45.057849 g/mol
SMILES
CNC
InChI
InChI=1S/C2H7N/c1-3-2/h3H,1-2H3
InChIKey
ROSDSFDQCJNGOL-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
45.3 °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.
7.3 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-200
7.0 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
51 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
44 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
6.88 °C @760 [mm Hg]measured · reference compound database
44 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
Melting Point
-135 °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.
-93 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-200
Deliquescent leaflets; mp: 171 °C; very soluble in water; soluble in alcohol, chloroform; practically insoluble in ether /Dimethylamine hydrochloride/measured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 587
-92.2 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-92.2 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-37 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-134 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
-92.18 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-134 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
Flash Point
20 °F (USCG, 1999)measured · 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.
The Guide from the Emergency Response Guidebook is for anhydrous dimethylamine. 20 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
-6.69 °C (19.96 °F) - closed cupmeasured · Sigma-Aldrich; Safety Data Sheet for Dimethylamine, Product Number: 295280, Version 4.7 (Revision Date 10/04/2018). Available from, as of January 14, 2019: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/safety-center.html
20 °F (Closed cup)measured · U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation. CHRIS - Hazardous Chemical Data. Volume II. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984-5.
-18 °C c.c.measured · reference compound database
20 °F (liquid)measured · reference compound database
NA (Gas) 20 °F (Liquid)measured · reference compound database
Solubility
24 % at 140 °F (NIOSH, 2024)measured · reference compound database
In water, 163 g/100g water at 40 °Cmeasured · Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 4th ed. Volumes 1: New York, NY. John Wiley and Sons, 1991-Present., p. V2: 371 (1992)
Very soluble in water forming a very strong alkaline solutionmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 587
Soluble in ethanol, ethyl ethermeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-200
Solubilities in various solvents at 1 atm and 20 °C.[Table#2482]measured · Flick, E.W. Industrial Solvents Handbook. 3rd ed. Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Publications, 1985., p. 524
1630 mg/mL at 40 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility in water, g/100ml: 354 (very soluble)measured · reference compound database
Solubility in water: very solublemeasured · reference compound database
(140 °F): 24%measured · reference compound database
Density
0.671 at 44.4 °F (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.
0.6804 g/cu cm at 0 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-200
Bulk density approximately 7.8 lb/galmeasured · Larranaga, M.D., Lewis, R.J. Sr., Lewis, R.A.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 16th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ 2016., p. 492
Saturated liquid density: 42.110 lb/cu ft; liquid heat capacity: 0.731 Btu/lb-F (all at 40 °F)measured · U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation. CHRIS - Hazardous Chemical Data. June, 1999. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. Available from, as of Oct 4, 2007: https://www.chrismanual.com/D/DMA.pdf
Saturated vapor pressure: 29.990 lb/sq in; saturated vapor density: 0.23550 lb/cu ft; ideal gas heat capacity: 0.364 Btu/lb-F (all at 75 °F)measured · U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation. CHRIS - Hazardous Chemical Data. June, 1999. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. Available from, as of Oct 4, 2007: https://www.chrismanual.com/D/DMA.pdf
Relative density (water = 1): 0.7measured · reference compound database
Relative density (water = 1): 0.9measured · reference compound database
0.67 (liquid at 44 °F)measured · reference compound database
0.6804 @ 0°Cmeasured · reference compound database
0.67 (Liquid at 44 °F)measured · reference compound database
1.56(relative gas density)measured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
1388.03 mmHg at 70 °F (USCG, 1999)measured · 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.
1520 mm Hg at 25 °Cmeasured · Daubert, T.E., R.P. Danner. Physical and Thermodynamic Properties of Pure Chemicals Data Compilation. Washington, D.C.: Taylor and Francis, 1989.
Vapor pressure, kPa at 25 °C: 203measured · reference compound database
Vapor pressure, kPa at 20 °C: 26.3measured · reference compound database
1.7 atmmeasured · reference compound database
750 [mm Hg] @6.6 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
1.7 atmmeasured · reference compound database
LogP
log Kow = -0.38measured · Hansch, C., Leo, A., D. Hoekman. Exploring QSAR - Hydrophobic, Electronic, and Steric Constants. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society., 1995., p. 5
-0.38measured · HANSCH,C ET AL. (1995)
-0.2measured · reference compound database
-0.38measured · reference compound database
Viscosity
1.7 mPa.s at 15.5 °C /40% Dimethylamine aqueous solution/measured · Gerhartz, W. (exec ed.). Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. 5th ed.Vol A1: Deerfield Beach, FL: VCH Publishers, 1985 to Present., p. VA16: 536 (1990)
1.7 mPa*s at 20 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.350 at 17 °C/Dmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-200

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
-0.1644calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
12.03 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
1calculated · 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
14.9837 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
0.3987calculated · 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
3
Total atoms, hydrogen included
10
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Secondary amine

    Nitrogen bonded to two carbons.

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 Dimethylamine yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it N-Methylmethanamine, N,N-Dimethylamine, Methanamine, N-methyl-, Dimethylamine (anhydrous), RCRA waste number U092, Dimethylamine, anhydrous, methanamine, N-methyl, Dimethylamine anhydrous, DIMETHYLAMINE-N-D1, Dimethylamine aq, HNMe2, Dimethylamine (40% aq.).

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Dimethylamine has a page here yet.

Seen alongside it in reaction records

Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as Dimethylamine. This says nothing about structure: most of them are the bases, solvents, ligands and catalysts the chemistry needed, and they are here because somebody put them in the same flask.

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.