formamide (CHEBI:16397)

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ChEBI Name	formamide

ChEBI ID	CHEBI:16397

Definition	The simplest monocarboxylic acid amide, obtained by formal condensation of formic acid with ammonia. The parent of the class of formaldehydes.

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

Secondary ChEBI IDs	CHEBI:40895, CHEBI:5143, CHEBI:14275, CHEBI:24078

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Formula

CH3NO

Net Charge

Average Mass

45.04066

Monoisotopic Mass

45.02146

InChI

InChI=1S/CH3NO/c2-1-3/h1H,(H2,2,3)

InChIKey

ZHNUHDYFZUAESO-UHFFFAOYSA-N

SMILES

[H]C(N)=O

Roles Classification
Chemical Role(s):	solvent A liquid that can dissolve other substances (solutes) without any change in their chemical composition.

Application(s):	solvent A liquid that can dissolve other substances (solutes) without any change in their chemical composition.

ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing	formamide (CHEBI:16397) has functional parent formic acid (CHEBI:30751) formamide (CHEBI:16397) has role solvent (CHEBI:46787) formamide (CHEBI:16397) is a formamides (CHEBI:24079) formamide (CHEBI:16397) is a monocarboxylic acid amide (CHEBI:29347) formamide (CHEBI:16397) is a one-carbon compound (CHEBI:64708) formamide (CHEBI:16397) is tautomer of formimidic acid (CHEBI:48431)

Incoming	5-formamidopyrimidine (CHEBI:35877) has functional parent formamide (CHEBI:16397) N,N-dimethylformamide (CHEBI:17741) has functional parent formamide (CHEBI:16397) N-benzylformamide (CHEBI:41117) has functional parent formamide (CHEBI:16397) N-butylformamide (CHEBI:84287) has functional parent formamide (CHEBI:16397) N-cyclohexylformamide (CHEBI:17945) has functional parent formamide (CHEBI:16397) N-furfurylformamide (CHEBI:28219) has functional parent formamide (CHEBI:16397) N-methylformamide (CHEBI:7438) has functional parent formamide (CHEBI:16397) carbamoyl (CHEBI:33100) has functional parent formamide (CHEBI:16397) formanilide (CHEBI:42416) has functional parent formamide (CHEBI:16397) morpholine-4-carbaldehyde (CHEBI:43989) has functional parent formamide (CHEBI:16397) formimidic acid (CHEBI:48431) is tautomer of formamide (CHEBI:16397)

IUPAC Name

formamide

Last Modified

23 October 2015