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sodium hydrogen carbonate

CHNaO3, 84.006 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

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Identifiers

Molecular formula
CHNaO₃
Molecular weight
84.006 g/mol
Exact mass
83.982338 g/mol
IUPAC name
sodium hydrogen carbonate
SMILES
O=C([O-])O.[Na+]
InChI
InChI=1S/CH2O3.Na/c2-1(3)4;/h(H2,2,3,4);/q;+1/p-1
InChIKey
UIIMBOGNXHQVGW-UHFFFAOYSA-M

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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.

Melting Point
Decomposes at 228 °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.
Decomposes around 50 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
228 °F (decomposes)measured · reference compound database
Approximately 50 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 4-90
Solubility
1 in 10 % at 77 °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.
100000 mg/L (at 25 °C)measured · MERCK INDEX (1996)
Soluble in water. Insoluble in ethanolmeasured · reference compound database
In water, 10.3 g/100 g water at 25 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 4-90
Soluble in 10 parts water at 25 °C; 12 parts water at about 18 °Cmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 1594
Solubility in water = 6.4, 7.6, 8.7, 10.0, 11.3, 12.7, 14.2, 16.5, and 19.1 g/100g solution at 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, and 100 °C, respectively; Solubility in water = 6.9, 8.2, 9.6, 11.1, 12.7, 14.5, 16.5, 19.7, and 23.6 g/100g H2O at 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, and 100 °C, respectively. Solubility is lower in the presence of sodium carbonatemeasured · Thieme C; Sodium Carbonates. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. 7th ed. (1999-2017). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Online Posting Date: 15 Jun 2000
Insoluble in ethanolmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 4-90
Solubility in water, g/100ml at 20 °C: 9.3measured · reference compound database
Density
2.159 (NTP, 1992) - Denser than water; will sinkmeasured · 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.
2.20 g/cu cmmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 4-90
2.1 g/cm³measured · reference compound database
2.2 @25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Refractive Index
Refractive indices: 1.380, 1.500, 1.586measured · Thieme C; Sodium Carbonates. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. 7th ed. (1999-2017). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Online Posting Date: 15 Jun 2000

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
84.007 g/molcalculated · reference compound database
Average mass of one molecule, from reference compound database.
Exact mass
83.98233817 Dacalculated · reference compound database
Mass of the most common isotopic form.
Polar surface area
60.4 Ųcalculated · reference compound database
Polar surface area as computed by reference compound database.
Complexity
24calculated · reference compound database
A rough measure of how intricate the structure is.
H-bond donors
1calculated · reference compound database
H-bond acceptors
3calculated · reference compound database
logP
-4.1083calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
60.36 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
1calculated · 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
8.0248 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
0.3033calculated · 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
5
Total atoms, hydrogen included
6
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Carboxylic acid

    A carbon double-bonded to oxygen and bonded to an –OH group; acidic.

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 sodium hydrogen carbonate yet.

Other names for it

The systematic name on this record is sodium hydrogen carbonate.

The sources also call it SODIUM BICARBONATE, Baking soda, Sodium hydrogencarbonate, Sodium acid carbonate, Bicarbonate of soda, Carbonic acid monosodium salt, Meylon, NaHCO3, Neut, Col-evac, Monosodium carbonate, Natriumhydrogenkarbonat.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to sodium hydrogen carbonate has a page here yet.

Seen alongside it in reaction records

Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as sodium hydrogen carbonate. 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.