p-Toluidine
C7H9N, 107.156 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.
Identifiers
- Molecular formula
- C₇H₉N
- Molecular weight
- 107.156 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 107.073499 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 4-methylaniline
- Cc1ccc(N)cc1
- InChI=1S/C7H9N/c1-6-2-4-7(8)5-3-6/h2-5H,8H2,1H3
- RZXMPPFPUUCRFN-UHFFFAOYSA-N
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
- 393 °F at 760 mmHg (USCG, 1999)
- 200.4 °C
- 200 °C
- 393 °F
- 200.4 °C @760 [mm Hg]
- 393 °F
- Melting Point
- 112.1 °F (USCG, 1999)
- 43.6 °C
- 44-45 °C
- 112 °F
- 42 °C
- 111 °F
- Flash Point
- 188 °F (USCG, 1999)
- 87 °C
- 190 °F (88 °C) (closed cup)
- 87 °C c.c.
- 188 °F
- 188 °F
- Solubility
- 0.7 % (NIOSH, 2024)
- Very soluble in ethanol, pyridine; soluble in diethyl ether, acetone, carbon tetrachloride
- Freely soluble in alcohol, ether, acetone, methanol, carbon disulfide, oils, dilute acids
- In water, 6.50 g/L (6.50X10+3 mg/L) at 15 °C
- Solubility in water, g/100ml at 20 °C: 0.75 (poor)
- 0.7%
- Density
- 1 at 68 °F (USCG, 1999)
- 0.9619 g/cu cm at 20 °C
- Relative density (water = 1): 1.05
- 1.05
- 1.046 @ 20°C
- 1.05
- Vapor Pressure
- 1 mmHg at 108 °F (NIOSH, 2024)
- 0.28 [mmHg]
- VP: 1 mm Hg at 42 °C
- 0.286 mm Hg at 25 °C
- Vapor pressure, kPa at 42 °C: 0.13
- 1 mmHg@108 °F
- 1 [mm Hg] @42 °C
- (108 °F): 1 mmHg
- LogP
- log Kow = 1.39
- 1.39
- 1.56
- Refractive Index
- Index of refraction: 1.5534 at 45 °C/D
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
- 107.15 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 107.073499291 Da
- XLogP3
- 1.4
- Polar surface area
- 26 Ų
- Complexity
- 62
- H-bond donors
- 1
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- logP
- 1.5772
- Topological polar surface area
- 26.02 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 1
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Rotatable bonds
- 0
- Molar refractivity
- 35.5914 cm³/mol
- Fraction sp³ carbons
- 0.1429
- QED drug-likeness
- 0.5003
What it is made of
Elements
Structure
- Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
- 8
- Total atoms, hydrogen included
- 17
- Rings
- 1
- Aromatic rings
- 1
- Stereocentres
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
Functional groups
Primary aromatic amine
Aromatic ring
The molecule in three dimensions
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
400 documented reactions involve p-Toluidine, each with a written procedure and a source, and all of them are buchwald–hartwig amination. A few are shown.
Buchwald–Hartwig amination
Buchwald–Hartwig amination · as a reactant
A recorded experiment with its conditions, its yield where one was published, and a link to the source.
Buchwald–Hartwig amination
Buchwald–Hartwig amination · as a reactant
A recorded experiment with its conditions, its yield where one was published, and a link to the source.
Buchwald–Hartwig amination
Buchwald–Hartwig amination · as a reactant
A recorded experiment with its conditions, its yield where one was published, and a link to the source.
Other names for it
The systematic name on this record is 4-methylaniline.
The sources also call it 4-Methylaniline, 4-Toluidine, 4-Methylbenzenamine, p-Tolylamine, 4-AMINOTOLUENE, p-Methylaniline, Benzenamine, 4-methyl-, p-Toluidin, p-Aminotoluene, p-Methylbenzenamine, 1-Amino-4-methylbenzene.
Structurally related
Where these values came from
chemistry engine
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.