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Lithium ion

Li+, 6.941 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

verified recordMonatomic ion3 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
Li+
Molecular weight
6.941 g/mol
Exact mass
7.015456 g/mol
IUPAC name
lithium(1+)
SMILES
[Li+]
InChI
InChI=1S/Li/q+1
InChIKey
HBBGRARXTFLTSG-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
1336measured · DrugBank
Melting Point
180.5measured · DrugBank
190 °Cmeasured · Human Metabolome Database (HMDB)
Solubility
Violent reactionmeasured · DrugBank

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
7 g/molcalculated · reference compound database
Average mass of one molecule, from reference compound database.
Exact mass
7.01600343 Dacalculated · reference compound database
Mass of the most common isotopic form.
Polar surface area
0 Ųcalculated · reference compound database
Polar surface area as computed by reference compound database.
Complexity
0calculated · reference compound database
A rough measure of how intricate the structure is.
H-bond donors
0calculated · reference compound database
H-bond acceptors
0calculated · reference compound database
logP
-2.996calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
0 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
0calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
0calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
0 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
0calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.2422calculated · 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
    1
    Total atoms, hydrogen included
    1
    Rings
    0
    Aromatic rings
    0
    Stereocentres
    0
    Formal charge
    1

    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 Lithium ion yet.

    Other names for it

    The systematic name on this record is lithium(1+).

    The sources also call it lithium cation, Lithium, ion (Li1+), 8H8Z5UER66, CHEBI:49713, Lithium ions, Lithium(+), CHEMBL1234004, DTXSID10169612, RefChem:1113622, Lithium(1+), lithium, ion.

    Structurally related

    Nothing structurally close to Lithium ion has a page here yet.

    Seen alongside it in reaction records

    Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as Lithium ion. 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

    compound record.

    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.