4-Aminopyridine

• Formula: C₅H₆N₂
• Molecular weight: 94.1145
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C5H6N2/c6-5-1-3-7-4-2-5/h1-4H,(H2,6,7) Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: NUKYPUAOHBNCPY-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 504-24-5
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Fampridine; 4-Pyridinamine; Pyridine, 4-amino-; γ-Aminopyridine; p-Aminopyridine; Phillips 1861; VMI 10-3; 4-Pyridylamine; Amino-4 pyridine; Avitrol; Avitrol 200; Compound 1861; Pimadin (free base); Prc 1237; 4-AP; Rcra waste number P008; NSC 15041; Frampridine
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DRB - Donald R. Burgess, Jr.

Reduced pressure boiling point

Enthalpy of fusion

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
RCD - Robert C. Dunbar

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Individual Reactions

C₅H₅N₂^- +  =

By formula: C₅H₅N₂^- + H⁺ = C₅H₆N₂

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Li⁺ + C₅H₆N₂ = (Li⁺ • C₅H₆N₂)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Na⁺ + C₅H₆N₂ = (Na⁺ • C₅H₆N₂)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: K⁺ + C₅H₆N₂ = (K⁺ • C₅H₆N₂)

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
HL - Edward P. Hunter and Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

Ionization energy determinations

De-protonation reactions

C₅H₅N₂^- +  =

By formula: C₅H₅N₂^- + H⁺ = C₅H₆N₂

Ion clustering data

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Clustering reactions

 +  = ( • )

By formula: K⁺ + C₅H₆N₂ = (K⁺ • C₅H₆N₂)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Li⁺ + C₅H₆N₂ = (Li⁺ • C₅H₆N₂)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Na⁺ + C₅H₆N₂ = (Na⁺ • C₅H₆N₂)

References

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Bickerton, Pilcher, et al., 1984
Bickerton, J.; Pilcher, G.; Al-Takhin, G., Enthalpies of combustion of the three aminopyridines and the three cyanopyridines, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1984, 16, 373-378. [all data]

Weast and Grasselli, 1989
CRC Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds, 2nd Editon, Weast,R.C and Grasselli, J.G., ed(s)., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 1989, 1. [all data]

Donnelly, Drewes, et al., 1990
Donnelly, J.R.; Drewes, L.A.; Johnson, R.L.; Munslow, W.D.; Knapp, K.K.; Sovocool, G.W., Purity and heat of fusion data for environmental standards as determined by differential scanning calorimetry, Thermochim. Acta, 1990, 167, 2, 155, https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-6031(90)80476-F . [all data]

Buckingham and Donaghy, 1982
Buckingham, J.; Donaghy, S.M., Dictionary of Organic Compounds: Fifth Edition, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1982, 1. [all data]

Cumper, Ginman, et al., 1963
Cumper, C.W.N.; Ginman, R.F.A.; Redford, D.G.; Vogel, A.I., Physical Properties and Chemical Constitution. Part XXXVIII. The Electric Dipole Moments of Aminopyridines and Aminoquinolines., J. Chem. Soc., 1963, 1963, 1731. [all data]

Leis and Curran, 1945
Leis, D.G.; Curran, B.C., Electric moments of some gamma-substituted pyridines, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1945, 67, 79. [all data]

Sabbah and da Silva Eusébio, 1998
Sabbah, Raphaël; da Silva Eusébio, Maria Ermelinda, Energétique des liaisons inter- et intramoléculaires dans les trois isomères de l'aminopyridine, Revue canadienne de chimie, 1998, 76, 1, 18-24, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjc-76-1-18 . [all data]

Donnelly, Drewes, et al., 1990, 2
Donnelly, J.R.; Drewes, L.A.; Johnson, R.L.; Munslow, W.D.; Knapp, K.K.; Sovocool, G.W., Purity and heat of fusion data for environmental standards as determined by differential scanning calorimetry, Thermochimica Acta, 1990, 167, 2, 155-187, https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-6031(90)80476-F . [all data]

Taft and Bordwell, 1988
Taft, R.W.; Bordwell, F.G., Structural and Solvent Effects Evaluated from Acidities Measured in Dimethyl Sulfoxide and in the Gas Phase, Acc. Chem. Res., 1988, 21, 12, 463, https://doi.org/10.1021/ar00156a005 . [all data]

Rodgers, 2001
Rodgers, M.T., Substituent Effects in the Binding of Alkali Metal Ions to Pyridines, Studied by Threshold Collision-Induced Dissociation and ab Initio Theory: The Aminopyridines, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2001, 105, 35, 8145, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp011555z . [all data]

Hunter and Lias, 1998
Hunter, E.P.; Lias, S.G., Evaluated Gas Phase Basicities and Proton Affinities of Molecules: An Update, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1998, 27, 3, 413-656, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.556018 . [all data]

Stefanovic and Grutzmacher, 1974
Stefanovic, D.; Grutzmacher, H.F., The ionisation potential of some substituted pyridines, Org. Mass Spectrom., 1974, 9, 1052. [all data]

Gronneberg and Undheim, 1973
Gronneberg, T.; Undheim, K., Mass spectrometry of onium compounds - XV. ionization potentials of amino pyridines, Tetrahedron Lett., 1973, 3193. [all data]

Daisey and Sonnessa, 1972
Daisey, J.M.; Sonnessa, A.J., A study of the thermodynamic and spectral properties of molecular complexes of iodine with several aminopyridines, J. Phys. Chem., 1972, 76, 1895. [all data]

Basila and Clancy, 1963
Basila, M.R.; Clancy, D.J., The ionization potentials of monosubstituted pyridines by electron impact, J. Phys. Chem., 1963, 67, 1551. [all data]

Ramsey and Walker, 1974
Ramsey, B.G.; Walker, F.A., A linear relationship between substituted pyridine lone pair vertical ionization potentials and pK_a, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1974, 96, 3314. [all data]

Kobayashi and Nagakura, 1974
Kobayashi, T.; Nagakura, S., Photoelectron spectra of aminopyridines and cyanopyridines, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1974, 4, 207. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔcH°solid	Enthalpy of combustion of solid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔfH°solid	Enthalpy of formation of solid at standard conditions
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔsubH°	Enthalpy of sublimation at standard conditions

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