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benzamidine
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Benzamidine is an organic compound with the formula C6H5C(NH)NH2. It is the simplest aryl amidine. The compound is a white solid that is slightly soluble in water. It is usually handled as the hydrochloride salt, a white, water-soluble solid.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C7H8N2
- Molecular weight
- 120.15 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- benzenecarboximidamide
- SMILES
- C1=CC=C(C=C1)C(=N)N
- InChIKey
- PXXJHWLDUBFPOL-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 0.7
- Polar surface area
- 49.9 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 2
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Research
5,552 papers- Multivalent Benzamidine Molecules for Plasmin Inhibition: Effect of Valency and Linker Length.ChemMedChem · 2022
- Interactions of thrombin with benzamidine-based inhibitors.Biological chemistry Hoppe-Seyler · 1992
- Water regulates the residence time of Benzamidine in Trypsin.Nature communications · 2022
- Benzamidine derivatives inhibit the virulence of Porphyromonas gingivalis.Molecular oral microbiology · 2013
- Preparation of micron-sized benzamidine-modified magnetic agarose beads for trypsin purification from fish viscera.Talanta · 2024
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 120.069
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- chemical formula
- C₇H₈N₂
- canonical SMILES
- C1=CC=C(C=C1)C(=N)N
- Commons category
- Benzamidine
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Structure
- Applications
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Benzamidine is an organic compound with the formula C6H5C(NH)NH2. It is the simplest aryl amidine. The compound is a white solid that is slightly soluble in water. It is usually handled as the hydrochloride salt, a white, water-soluble solid.
==Structure== Benzamidine has one short C=NH bond and one longer C-NH2 bond, which are respectively 129 and 135 pm in length, respectively.
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