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dithiooxamide
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Dithiooxamide, also known as rubeanic acid, is an organic compound. It is the sulfur analog of oxamide. It acts as a chelating agent, e.g. in the detection or determination of copper. It has also been used as a building block in the synthesis of cyclen.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C2H4N2S2
- Molecular weight
- 120.2 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- ethanedithioamide
- SMILES
- C(=S)(C(=S)N)N
- InChIKey
- OAEGRYMCJYIXQT-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- -0.4
- Polar surface area
- 116 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 2
- 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
- 119.982
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- chemical formula
- C₂H₄N₂S₂
- canonical SMILES
- C(=S)(C(=S)N)N
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- Dithiooxamide
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Materials chemistry
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Dithiooxamide, also known as rubeanic acid, is an organic compound. It is the sulfur analog of oxamide. It acts as a chelating agent, e.g. in the detection or determination of copper. It has also been used as a building block in the synthesis of cyclen.
==Materials chemistry== Rubeanic acid has received much attention as a precursor to photonic or electroactive materials. It is a precursor to inorganic C-S-N rings. It condenses with acid chlorides to thiazoles. It forms coordination polymers.
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