Guanine

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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

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δfsolid-43.95 ± 0.20kcal/molCcbStiehler and Huffman, 1935Reanalyzed by Cox and Pilcher, 1970, Original value = -45.09 kcal/mol; ALS
Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δcsolid-597.09 ± 0.19kcal/molCcbStiehler and Huffman, 1935Reanalyzed by Cox and Pilcher, 1970, Original value = -596.89 kcal/mol; ALS
Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
solid,1 bar38.29cal/mol*KN/AStiehler and Huffman, 1935, 2Extrapolation below 90 K, 45.06 J/mol*K.; DH

Constant pressure heat capacity of solid

Cp,solid (cal/mol*K) Temperature (K) Reference Comment
38.41298.Kilday, 1981DH
37.510296.7Stiehler and Huffman, 1935, 2T = 84 to 297 K. Value is unsmoothed experimental datum.; DH

Phase change data

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Data compiled by: William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

Enthalpy of sublimation

ΔsubH (kcal/mol) Temperature (K) Method Reference Comment
40.2 ± 0.1365.QR,MEde Barros, Medina, et al., 2006Based on data from 325. to 405. K.

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Robert C. Dunbar

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Individual Reactions

Sodium ion (1+) + Guanine = (Sodium ion (1+) • Guanine)

By formula: Na+ + C5H5N5O = (Na+ • C5H5N5O)

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr43.5kcal/molCIDCCerda and Wesdemiotis, 1996 

Potassium ion (1+) + Guanine = (Potassium ion (1+) • Guanine)

By formula: K+ + C5H5N5O = (K+ • C5H5N5O)

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr28.0kcal/molCIDCCerda and Wesdemiotis, 1996 

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:
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Proton affinity (review)229.3kcal/molN/AHunter and Lias, 1998HL
Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Gas basicity221.7kcal/molN/AHunter and Lias, 1998HL

Ionization energy determinations

IE (eV) Method Reference Comment
7.85PEDougherty, Younathan, et al., 1978LLK
8.0 ± 0.2EIVerkin, Sukodub, et al., 1976LLK
8.24 ± 0.03PEHush and Cheung, 1975Vertical value; LLK

Ion clustering data

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Clustering reactions

Potassium ion (1+) + Guanine = (Potassium ion (1+) • Guanine)

By formula: K+ + C5H5N5O = (K+ • C5H5N5O)

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr28.0kcal/molCIDCCerda and Wesdemiotis, 1996 

Sodium ion (1+) + Guanine = (Sodium ion (1+) • Guanine)

By formula: Na+ + C5H5N5O = (Na+ • C5H5N5O)

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr43.5kcal/molCIDCCerda and Wesdemiotis, 1996 

IR Spectrum

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Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Data compiled by: NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center, William E. Wallace, director

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Origin Japan AIST/NIMC Database- Spectrum MS-NW-8150
NIST MS number 228112

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UV/Visible spectrum

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Data compiled by: Victor Talrose, Alexander N. Yermakov, Alexy A. Usov, Antonina A. Goncharova, Axlexander N. Leskin, Natalia A. Messineva, Natalia V. Trusova, Margarita V. Efimkina

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Source Johnson, 1971
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Origin INSTITUTE OF ENERGY PROBLEMS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, RAS
Source reference RAS UV No. 19875
Instrument Unicam SP 500
Melting point 365 dec.

References

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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, 1981
Kilday, M.V., Enthalpies of solution of the nucleic acid bases. 6. Guanine in aqueous HCl and NaOH, and guanine hydrochlorides in aqueous HCl, J. Res., 1981, NBS 86, 367-381. [all data]

de Barros, Medina, et al., 2006
de Barros, A.L.F.; Medina, A.; Zappa, F.; Pereira, J.M.; Bessa, E.; Martins, M.H.P.; Coelho, L.F.S.; Wolff, W.; de Castro Faria, N.V., A simple experimental arrangement for measuring the vapour pressures and sublimation enthalpies by the Knudsen effusion method: Application to DNA and RNA bases, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2006, 560, 2, 219-223, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2006.01.026 . [all data]

Cerda and Wesdemiotis, 1996
Cerda, B.A.; Wesdemiotis, C., PAs of Peptides, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118, 11884. [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]

Dougherty, Younathan, et al., 1978
Dougherty, D.; Younathan, E.S.; Voll, R.; Abdulnur, S.; McGlynn, S.P., Photoelectron spectroscopy of some biological molecules, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1978, 13, 379. [all data]

Verkin, Sukodub, et al., 1976
Verkin, B.I.; Sukodub, L.F.; Yanson, I.K., Ionization potentials of nitrogenous bases of of nucleic acids, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1976, 228, 1452. [all data]

Hush and Cheung, 1975
Hush, N.S.; Cheung, A.S., Ionization potentials and donor properties of nucleic acid bases and related compounds, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1975, 34, 11. [all data]

Johnson, 1971
Johnson, E.A., UV atlas of organic compounds, 1971, 5, J10/2. [all data]


Notes

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