Dimethylcyanamide

C3H6N2, 70.095 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

Organic — nitrile8 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: C₃H₆N₂
Molecular weight: 70.095 g/mol
Exact mass: 70.053098 g/mol
SMILES: CN(C)C#N
InChI: InChI=1S/C3H6N2/c1-5(2)3-4/h1-2H3
InChIKey: OAGOUCJGXNLJNL-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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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: 326.3 °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.; 163.5 °C @ 760 MM HGmeasured · Lide, D.R. (ed). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 72nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1991-1992., p. 3-191
Melting Point: -42 °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.; -41.0 °Cmeasured · Patty, F. (ed.). Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology: Volume II: Toxicology. 2nd ed. New York: Interscience Publishers, 1963., p. 2003
Flash Point: 160 °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.; 160 °F (71 °C) (CLOSED CUP)measured · Sax, N.I. and R.J. Lewis, Sr. (eds.). Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary. 11th ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1987., p. 413
Solubility: Decomposes (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.; VERY SOL IN WATERmeasured · Weast, R.C. (ed.). Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 60th ed. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press Inc., 1979., p. C-258; SOL IN ALCOHOL, ETHER & ACETONEmeasured · Lide, D.R. (ed). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 72nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1991-1992., p. 3-191
Density: 0.88 (NTP, 1992) - Less dense than water; will floatmeasured · 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.; 0.876measured · Sax, N.I. and R.J. Lewis, Sr. (eds.). Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary. 11th ed. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1987., p. 413
Vapor Pressure: 16.0 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database; 40 MM HG @ 80 °Cmeasured · Patty, F. (ed.). Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology: Volume II: Toxicology. 2nd ed. New York: Interscience Publishers, 1963., p. 2003
LogP: -0.15measured · reference compound database
Refractive Index: INDEX OF REFRACTION: 1.4089 @ 19 °C/Dmeasured · Lide, D.R. (ed). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 72nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1991-1992., p. 3-191

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: 0.0291calculated · chemistry engine; Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area: 27.03 Å²calculated · 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: 2calculated · chemistry engine; Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds: 0calculated · chemistry engine; Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity: 19.3 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine; Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons: 0.6667calculated · chemistry engine; Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness: 0.2968calculated · chemistry engine; Quantitative estimate of drug-likeness (0–1).

What it is made of

Elements

C Carbon3 atoms · 51.4% by mass
N Nitrogen2 atoms · 40.0% by mass
H Hydrogen6 atoms · 8.6% by mass

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

Structure

Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded: 5
Total atoms, hydrogen included: 11
Rings: 0
Aromatic rings: 0
Stereocentres: 0
Formal charge: 0

Functional groups

Nitrile
A carbon–nitrogen triple bond.

Matched by structural pattern, not by a measurement.

The molecule in three dimensions

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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 Dimethylcyanamide yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it DIMETHYL CYANAMIDE, N-Cyano-N-methylmethanamine, Cyanamide, dimethyl-, Dimethylkyanamid, N-Cyanodimethylamine, Cyanamide, N,N-dimethyl-, cyanodimethylamine, Dimethylkyanamid [Czech], CCRIS 5909, N,N-dimethylcyanamide, dimethyl-cyanamide, azaisobutyronitrile.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Dimethylcyanamide has a page here yet.

Seen alongside it in reaction records

Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as Dimethylcyanamide. 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.

1,1-Dimethyl-2-(2-morpholinophenyl)guanidine

formed as a product

C₁₃H₂₀N₄O, 248.33 g/mol.

(4'-Methyl biphenyl-4-yl)(phenyl)methanone

used as a reactant

C₂₀H₁₆O, 272.347 g/mol.

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.