Adenine

• Formula: C₅H₅N₅
• Molecular weight: 135.1267
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C5H5N5/c6-4-3-5(9-1-7-3)10-2-8-4/h1-2H,(H3,6,7,8,9,10) Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: GFFGJBXGBJISGV-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 73-24-5
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: 1H-Purin-6-amine; ADE; Adenin; Adeninimine; Leuco-4; Vitamin B4; 1,6-Dihydro-6-iminopurine; 3,6-Dihydro-6-iminopurine; 6-Amino-1H-purine; 6-Amino-3H-purine; 6-Amino-9H-purine; 6-Aminopurine; 1H-Purine-6-amine; Purine, 6-amino-; USAF CB-18; 1H-Purine, 6-amino-; 6-Amino-7H-purine; 9H-Purine, 1,6-dihydro-6-imino-; 9H-Purin-6-yl-amine; 9H-Purine-6-amine; NSC 14666
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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Constant pressure heat capacity of solid

Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

Enthalpy of sublimation

References

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Kirklin and Domalski, 1983
Kirklin, D.R.; Domalski, E.S., Enthalpy of combustion of adenine, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1983, 15, 941-947. [all data]

Stiehler and Huffman, 1935
Stiehler, R.D.; Huffman, H.M., Thermal data. IV. The heats of combustion of adenine, hypoxanthine, guanine, xanthine, uric acid, allantoin and alloxan, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1935, 57, 1734-1740. [all data]

Cox and Pilcher, 1970
Cox, J.D.; Pilcher, G., Thermochemistry of Organic and Organometallic Compounds, Academic Press, New York, 1970, 1-636. [all data]

Stiehler and Huffman, 1935, 2
Stiehler, R.D.; Huffman, H.M., Thermal data. V. The heat capacities, entropies and free energies of adenine, hypoxanthine, guanine, xanthine, uric acid, allantoin and alloxan, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1935, 57, 1741-1743. [all data]

Kilday, 1978
Kilday, M.V., Enthalpies of solution of the nucleic acid bases. 1. Adenine in water, J. Res., 1978, NBS 83, 347-369. [all data]

Clark, Peschel, et al., 1965
Clark, L.B.; Peschel, G.G.; Tinoco, I., Jr., Vapor spectra and heats of vaporization of some purine and pyrmidine bases, J. Phys. Chem., 1965, 69, 3615. [all data]

Stephenson and Malanowski, 1987
Stephenson, Richard M.; Malanowski, Stanislaw, Handbook of the Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds, 1987, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3173-2 . [all data]

Zielenkiewicz, Zielenkiewicz, et al., 1984
Zielenkiewicz, A.; Zielenkiewicz, W.; Sukhodub, L.F.; Glukhova, O.T.; Tepitsky, A.B.; Wierzchowski, K.L., Thermochemistry of aqueous solutions of alkylated nucleic acid bases. v. Enthalpies of hydration of N-methylated adenines, J. Solution Chem., 1984, 13, 757-765. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,solid	Constant pressure heat capacity of solid
  S°solid,1 bar	Entropy of solid at standard conditions (1 bar)
  ΔcH°solid	Enthalpy of combustion of solid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°solid	Enthalpy of formation of solid at standard conditions
  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation
  ΔsubH°	Enthalpy of sublimation at standard conditions

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