guanidine (CHEBI:42820)

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ChEBI Name	guanidine

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:42820

Definition	An aminocarboxamidine, the parent compound of the guanidines.

Stars	This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.

Secondary ChEBI IDs	CHEBI:42816, CHEBI:24435

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Formula

CH5N3

Net Charge

Average Mass

59.07062

Monoisotopic Mass

59.04835

InChI

InChI=1S/CH5N3/c2-1(3)4/h(H5,2,3,4)

InChIKey

ZRALSGWEFCBTJO-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

NC(N)=N

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	guanidine (CHEBI:42820) is a carboxamidine (CHEBI:35359) guanidine (CHEBI:42820) is a guanidines (CHEBI:24436) guanidine (CHEBI:42820) is a one-carbon compound (CHEBI:64708) guanidine (CHEBI:42820) is conjugate base of guanidinium (CHEBI:30087)

Incoming	N-hydroxyguanidine (CHEBI:43089) has functional parent guanidine (CHEBI:42820) guanethidine (CHEBI:5557) has functional parent guanidine (CHEBI:42820) nitroguanidine (CHEBI:39179) has functional parent guanidine (CHEBI:42820) guanidinium (CHEBI:30087) is conjugate acid of guanidine (CHEBI:42820) guanidino group (CHEBI:48551) is substituent group from guanidine (CHEBI:42820)

IUPAC Name

guanidine

Citation	Type	Source
8070089	PubMed citation	Europe PMC

Last Modified

22 February 2017

General Comment
2010-12-22	Formed by the oxidation of guanine, it is used in the manufacture of plastics and explosives, and is found in urine as a normal product of protein metabolism.