formamidine (CHEBI:38477)

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ChEBI Name	formamidine

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:38477

Definition	The smallest member of the class of carboxamidines being formic acid with the O and OH groups from the carboxy function replaced by NH and NH2 groups respectively. The parent of the class of formamidines.

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

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Formula

CH4N2

Net Charge

Average Mass

44.05594

Monoisotopic Mass

44.03745

InChI

InChI=1S/CH4N2/c2-1-3/h1H,(H3,2,3)

InChIKey

PNKUSGQVOMIXLU-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

[H]C(N)=N

Roles Classification
Biological Role(s):	EC 1.14.13.39 (nitric oxide synthase) inhibitor An EC 1.14.13.* (oxidoreductase acting on paired donors, incorporating 1 atom of oxygen, with NADH or NADPH as one donor) inhibitor that interferes with the action of nitric oxide synthase (EC 1.14.13.39).

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	formamidine (CHEBI:38477) has functional parent formic acid (CHEBI:30751) formamidine (CHEBI:38477) has role EC 1.14.13.39 (nitric oxide synthase) inhibitor (CHEBI:61908) formamidine (CHEBI:38477) is a carboxamidine (CHEBI:35359) formamidine (CHEBI:38477) is a formamidines (CHEBI:51917) formamidine (CHEBI:38477) is a one-carbon compound (CHEBI:64708)

Incoming	N'-(3-hydroxyphenyl)-N,N-dimethylformamidine (CHEBI:38493) has functional parent formamidine (CHEBI:38477) formamidine pesticide (CHEBI:38490) has functional parent formamidine (CHEBI:38477) (aminomethylidene)amino group (CHEBI:48243) is substituent group from formamidine (CHEBI:38477) carbamimidoyl group (CHEBI:48090) is substituent group from formamidine (CHEBI:38477) methaneimidamido group (CHEBI:48375) is substituent group from formamidine (CHEBI:38477)

IUPAC Name

methanimidamide

Citation	Type	Source
11377388	PubMed citation	Europe PMC

Last Modified

11 June 2012