Cytosine

• Formula: C₄H₅N₃O
• Molecular weight: 111.1020
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H5N3O/c5-3-1-2-6-4(8)7-3/h1-2H,(H3,5,6,7,8) Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: OPTASPLRGRRNAP-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 71-30-7
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: 2(1H)-Pyrimidinone, 4-amino-; Cyt; Cytosinimine; 4-Amino-2(1H)-pyrimidinone; 4-Amino-2-hydroxypyrimidine; 4-Amino-2(1H)pyrimidone; 4-Amino-2-oxypyrimidine
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  • Reaction thermochemistry data
  • Gas phase ion energetics data
  • IR Spectrum
  • UV/Visible spectrum
  • References
  • Notes
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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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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:
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Enthalpy of sublimation

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
M - Michael M. Meot-Ner (Mautner) and Sharon G. Lias
RCD - Robert C. Dunbar

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Individual Reactions

C₄H₆N₃O⁺ +  = (C₄H₆N₃O⁺ • )

By formula: C₄H₆N₃O⁺ + C₄H₅N₃O = (C₄H₆N₃O⁺ • C₄H₅N₃O)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Na⁺ + C₄H₅N₃O = (Na⁺ • C₄H₅N₃O)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: K⁺ + C₄H₅N₃O = (K⁺ • C₄H₅N₃O)

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
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron
B - John E. Bartmess

Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

IR Spectrum

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• SOLID (1 mg / 650 mg KBr DISC); PERKIN-ELMER 21 (GRATING); (ADJUSTED subtractcm-1misc); 2 cm^-1 resolution
• SOLID (1.2 mg / 380 mg KBr DISC) $$ PURITY - ANALYTICAL; PERKIN-ELMER 180 (GRATING); DIGITIZED BY COBLENTZ SOCIETY (BATCH II) FROM HARD COPY; 2 cm^-1 resolution

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

Spectrum

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Additional Data

References

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Sabbah, 1980
Sabbah, R., Thermodynamics of nitrogen compounds. V. Thermochemical study of cytosine, Thermochim. Acta, 1980, 35, 73-77. [all data]

Wilson, Watson, et al., 1979
Wilson, S.R.; Watson, I.D.; Malcolm, G.N., Enthalpies of formation of solid cytosine, L-histidine, and uracil, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1979, 11, 911-912. [all data]

Sabbah, Nabavian, et al., 1977
Sabbah, R.; Nabavian, M.; Laffitte, M., Sur l'enthalpie de formation de la cytosine a 1'etat solide., C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1977, 284, 953-954. [all data]

Kilday, 1978
Kilday, M.V., Enthalpies of solution of the nucleic acid bases. 3. Cytosine in water, J. Res., 1978, NBS 83, 539-546. [all data]

Burkinshaw and Mortimer, 1984
Burkinshaw, Philip M.; Mortimer, Colin T., Enthalpies of sublimation of transition metal complexes, J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 1984, 1, 75, https://doi.org/10.1039/dt9840000075 . [all data]

Ferro, Bencivenni, et al., 1980
Ferro, D.; Bencivenni, L.; Teghil, R.; Mastromarino, R., Vapour pressures and sublimation enthalpies of thymine and cytosine, Thermochimica Acta, 1980, 42, 1, 75-83, https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-6031(80)87117-6 . [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]

Zielenkiewicz, Wszelaka-Rylik, et al., 1998
Zielenkiewicz, A.; Wszelaka-Rylik, M.; Poznanski, J.; Zielenkiewicz, W., Journal of Solution Chemistry, 1998, 27, 3, 235-243, https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022636218154 . [all data]

Meot-Ner (Mautner), 1979
Meot-Ner (Mautner), M., Ion Thermochemistry of Low Volatility Compounds in the Gas Phase. II. Intrinsic Basicities and Hydrogen Bonded Dimers of Nitrogen Heterocyclics and Nucleic Bases, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1979, 101, 9, 2396, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00503a027 . [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]

Li, Bowen, et al., 2007
Li, X.; Bowen, K.H.; Haranczyk, M.; Bachorz, R.A.; Mazurkiewicz, K.; Rak, J.; Gutowski, M., Photoelectron spectroscopy of adiabatically bound valence anions of rare tautomers of the nucleic acid bases, J. Chem. Phys., 2007, 127, 17, 174309, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2795719 . [all data]

Schiedt, Weinkauf, et al., 1998
Schiedt, J.; Weinkauf, R.; Neumark, D.M.; Schlag, E.W., Anion spectroscopy of uracil, thymine and the amino-oxo and amino-hydroxy tautomers of cytosine and their water clusters, Chem. Phys., 1998, 239, 1-3, 511-524, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0301-0104(98)00361-9 . [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]

Lifschitz, Bergmann, et al., 1967
Lifschitz, C.; Bergmann, E.D.; Pullman, B., The ionization potentials of biological purines and pyrimidines, Tetrahedron Lett., 1967, 4583. [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]

(ed., 1961
(ed., Lang L., Absorption spectra in the ultraviolet and visible region, 1961, 1, 309. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,solid	Constant pressure heat capacity of solid
  EA	Electron affinity
  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
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrS°	Entropy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation
  ΔsubH°	Enthalpy of sublimation at standard conditions

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