Nitrate

An inorganic compound, NO3-, 62.004 g/mol.

verified recordInorganic compound

Identifiers

Molecular formula: NO₃-
Molecular weight: 62.004 g/mol
Exact mass: 61.988366 g/mol
SMILES: O=[N+]([O-])[O-]
InChI: InChI=1S/NO3/c2-1(3)4/q-1
InChIKey: NHNBFGGVMKEFGY-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Calculated properties

Derived from the structure, not from a sample; kept apart from the measurements above.

logP: -0.2391calculated · chemistry engine; Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area: 66.2 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: 3calculated · chemistry engine; Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds: 0calculated · chemistry engine; Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity: 10.3614 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: 0.287calculated · 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: 4
Rings: 0
Aromatic rings: 0
Stereocentres: 0
Formal charge: -1

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 Nitrate yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it NITRATE ION, Nitrates, Nitrate(1-), trioxonitrate(1-), trioxidonitrate(1-), INORGANIC NITRATES, Nitrate (6CI,7CI,8CI,9CI), Nitrate(1-); Nitrato; Nitric acid, ion(1-), Nitrate as N @ 1000 microg/mL in H2O, Nitrate as N @ 10000 microg/mL in H2O, nitrooxidane, trioxidonitrate.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Nitrate has a page here yet.

Seen alongside it in reaction records

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

1,4-Dioxane

used as a reactant

C₄H₈O₂, 88.106 g/mol.

1,4-Dihydro-6-(trifluoromethyl)-2,3-quinoxalinedione

used as a reactant

C₉H₅F₃N₂O₂, 230.145 g/mol.

Where these values came from

chemistry engine
structure perception

compound record.

What this page does not claim

Identifiers are copied from the source record, measured values are reported as published, and calculated values are marked as calculated. Nothing here is a hazard, purity or handling assessment — how the library is checked.