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CHEBI:18407 - hydrogen cyanide
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ChEBI Name
hydrogen cyanide
ChEBI ID
CHEBI:18407
Definition
A one-carbon compound consisting of a methine group triple bonded to a nitrogen atom
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This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
Secondary ChEBI IDs
CHEBI:5786, CHEBI:13362
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Formula
CHN
Net Charge
0
Average Mass
27.02530
Monoisotopic Mass
27.01090
InChI
InChI=1S/CHN/c1-2/h1H
InChIKey
LELOWRISYMNNSU-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C#N
Metabolite of Species
Details
Escherichia coli
(NCBI:txid562)
See:
PubMed
Homo sapiens
(NCBI:txid9606)
See:
DOI
Roles Classification
Chemical Role
(s):
Bronsted acid
A molecular entity capable of donating a hydron to an acceptor (Br
o
nsted base).
(via
hydracid
)
Biological Role
(s):
Escherichia coli metabolite
Any bacterial metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in
Escherichia coli
.
human metabolite
Any mammalian metabolite produced during a metabolic reaction in humans (
Homo sapiens
).
poison
Any substance that causes disturbance to organisms by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by the organism.
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ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing
hydrogen cyanide (
CHEBI:18407
)
has role
Escherichia coli
metabolite (
CHEBI:76971
)
hydrogen cyanide (
CHEBI:18407
)
has role
human metabolite (
CHEBI:77746
)
hydrogen cyanide (
CHEBI:18407
)
has role
poison (
CHEBI:64909
)
hydrogen cyanide (
CHEBI:18407
)
is a
hydracid (
CHEBI:33405
)
hydrogen cyanide (
CHEBI:18407
)
is a
one-carbon compound (
CHEBI:64708
)
hydrogen cyanide (
CHEBI:18407
)
is conjugate acid of
cyanide (
CHEBI:17514
)
hydrogen cyanide (
CHEBI:18407
)
is tautomer of
hydrogen isocyanide (
CHEBI:36856
)
Incoming
cyanyl (
CHEBI:29306
)
has functional parent
hydrogen cyanide (
CHEBI:18407
)
cyanides (
CHEBI:23424
)
has parent hydride
hydrogen cyanide (
CHEBI:18407
)
cyanide (
CHEBI:17514
)
is conjugate base of
hydrogen cyanide (
CHEBI:18407
)
cyano group (
CHEBI:48819
)
is substituent group from
hydrogen cyanide (
CHEBI:18407
)
hydrogen isocyanide (
CHEBI:36856
)
is tautomer of
hydrogen cyanide (
CHEBI:18407
)
IUPAC Names
hydridonitridocarbon
hydrogen(nitridocarbonate)
methanenitrile
Synonyms
Sources
[CHN]
IUPAC
Blausäure
ChEBI
Cyanwasserstoff
NIST Chemistry WebBook
formonitrile
IUPAC
HCN
KEGG COMPOUND
hydrocyanic acid
NIST Chemistry WebBook
Hydrogen cyanide
KEGG COMPOUND
hydrogen cyanide
IUPAC
hydrogen cyanide
UniProt
Manual Xrefs
Databases
C00007569
KNApSAcK
C01326
KEGG COMPOUND
HCN
MetaCyc
HMDB0060292
HMDB
Hydrogen_cyanide
Wikipedia
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Registry Numbers
Types
Sources
1718793
Reaxys Registry Number
Reaxys
74-90-8
CAS Registry Number
NIST Chemistry WebBook
74-90-8
CAS Registry Number
ChemIDplus
Citations
Last Modified
26 May 2016