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isoniacinamide
Sign in to saveAlso known as isn, isonicotinamide, 4-carbamoylpyridine, 4-pyridinecarboxamide, isonicotinic acid amide, pyridine-4-carboxylic acid amide, pyridine-4-carboxamide
Isonicotinamide (pyridine-4-carboxamide) is the amide form of isonicotinic acid. It is an isomer of nicotinamide, which has the carboxamide group in the 3-position.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C6H6N2O
- Molecular weight
- 122.12 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- pyridine-4-carboxamide
- SMILES
- C1=CN=CC=C1C(=O)N
- InChIKey
- VFQXVTODMYMSMJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- -0.3
- Polar surface area
- 56 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 1
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 122.048
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- chemical formula
- C₆H₆N₂O
- canonical SMILES
- C1=CN=CC=C1C(=O)N
- melting point
- 157.0
- found in taxon
- Phaseolus vulgaris
- Commons category
- Isonicotinamide
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Isonicotinamide (pyridine-4-carboxamide) is the amide form of isonicotinic acid. It is an isomer of nicotinamide, which has the carboxamide group in the 3-position.
It is soluble in water (191 g/L), and is also soluble in ethanol, DMSO, methanol, chloroform, chloroform/methanol mixtures, and dioxane (10 mg/L). This compound is used for material synthesis.
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