Description
A pyrimidone that is cytosine in which the hydrogen attached to the nitrogen at position 1 is substituted by a methyl group.
Chemical properties
| Chemical formula | Net charge | Average mass |
|---|---|---|
| C5H7N3O | 0 | 125.12860 |
Recommended notation
| Name | 1-methylcytosine |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | 1mC |
Nomenclature
| IUPAC | SMILES | InChI | InChIKey |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4-amino-1-methylpyrimidin-2(1H)-one | Cn1ccc(N)nc1=O | InChI=1S/C5H7N3O/c1-8-3-2-4(6)7-5(8)9/h2-3H,1H3,(H2,6,7,9) | HWPZZUQOWRWFDB-UHFFFAOYSA-N |
Nature
| Origin | Function | Functional detail |
Organisms
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References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| synthetic |
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Citations
- MATHEWS, FS, et al. 1964. CRYSTAL AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF N-METHYL CYTOSINE. Nature. 201.
- Roux, A, et al. 2012. Annotation of the human adult urinary metabolome and metabolite identification using ultra high performance liquid chromatography coupled to a linear quadrupole ion trap-Orbitrap mass spectrometer. Analytical Chemistry. 84(15).