Guanine

• Formula: C₅H₅N₅O
• Molecular weight: 151.1261
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C5H5N5O/c6-5-9-3-2(4(11)10-5)7-1-8-3/h1H,(H4,6,7,8,9,10,11) Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: UYTPUPDQBNUYGX-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 73-40-5
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: 6H-Purin-6-one, 2-amino-1,7-dihydro-; C.I. Natural White 1; C.I. 75170; Dew Pearl; Guanin; Guanine enol; Hypoxanthine, 2-amino-; Mearlmaid; Natural Pearl Essence; Naturon; Pathocidin; Pearl Essence; Stella Polaris; 2-Amino-6-hydroxypurine; 2-Aminohypoxanthine; 2-Amino-1,7-dihydro-6H-purin-6-one; 6H-Purin-6-one, 2-amino-1,9-dihydro-; Natural White 1
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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

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]

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

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