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Quinoline

C9H7N, 129.162 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

verified recordOrganic — aromatic compound9 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
C₉H₇N
Molecular weight
129.162 g/mol
Exact mass
129.057849 g/mol
IUPAC name
quinoline
SMILES
c1ccc2ncccc2c1
InChI
InChI=1S/C9H7N/c1-2-6-9-8(4-1)5-3-7-10-9/h1-7H
InChIKey
SMWDFEZZVXVKRB-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
460 °F at 760 mmHg (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
237.7 °C @ 760 mm Hgmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Melting Point
5 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
-14.78 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Density
1.095 at 68 °F (USCG, 1999) - Denser than water; will sinkmeasured · CAMEO Chemicals
1.0900 @ 25 °C/4 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Solubility
less than 0.1 mg/mL at 72.5 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
Soluble in alcohol, ether, and carbon disulfidemeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Vapor Pressure
1 mmHg at 139.5 °F ; 5 mmHg at 193.3 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
0.06 [mmHg]measured · Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
LogP
log Kow= 2.03measured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
2.03measured · Human Metabolome Database (HMDB)
Flash Point
138 °F (NFPA, 2010)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
105 °Cmeasured · Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
Viscosity
2.997 millipascal second (=cP) at 30 °Cmeasured · Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 4th ed. Volumes 1: New York, NY. John Wiley and Sons, 1991-Present., p. V20 (1996) 769
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.62683 @ 20 °C/Dmeasured · Lide, DR (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 81st Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2000, p. 3-307

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
129.16 g/molcalculated · reference compound database
Average mass of one molecule, from reference compound database.
Exact mass
129.057849228 Dacalculated · reference compound database
Mass of the most common isotopic form.
XLogP3
2calculated · reference compound database
Estimated oil/water partition, computed by reference compound database.
Polar surface area
12.9 Ųcalculated · reference compound database
Polar surface area as computed by reference compound database.
Complexity
111calculated · reference compound database
A rough measure of how intricate the structure is.
H-bond donors
0calculated · reference compound database
H-bond acceptors
1calculated · reference compound database
logP
2.2348calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
12.89 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
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
41.743 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
0.5312calculated · 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
10
Total atoms, hydrogen included
17
Rings
2
Aromatic rings
2
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Aromatic ring

    A flat six-membered ring with delocalised electrons.

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 Quinoline yet.

Other names for it

The systematic name on this record is quinoline.

The sources also call it 1-Benzazine, Chinoline, Chinoleine, Chinolin, Quinolin, 1-Azanaphthalene, Leucol, Leukol, Benzopyridine, 2,3-Benzopyridine, Benzo[b]pyridine.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Quinoline has a page here yet.

Seen alongside it in reaction records

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