Orotic acid
Properties
- Molecular formula
- C5H4N2O4
- Molar mass
- 156.10 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 156.0171 Da
- Melting point
- 345–346 °C
- pKa
- 2.07, 9.45
- Water solubility
- 1.82 g/L (25 °C)
- logP
- -0.41Crippen estimate
- Polar surface area
- 103.5 Ų
- H-bond donors / acceptors
- 3 / 5
- Rotatable bonds
- 1
Hazards
Warning
- H302 Harmful if swallowed93.3% of notifiers
- H315 Causes skin irritation88.3% of notifiers
- H319 Causes serious eye irritation88.3% of notifiers
- H335 May cause respiratory irritation81.7% of notifiers
Aggregated from 60 ECHA notifications, via PubChem; a share says how many notifiers assign that statement.
Precautionary statements
P261, P264, P264+P265, P270, P271, P280, P301+P317, P302+P352, P304+P340, P305+P351+P338, P319, P321, P330, P332+P317, P337+P317, P362+P364, P403+P233, P405, P501
Identifiers
CAS number
65-86-1SMILES
O=C(O)c1cc(O)nc(O)n1InChIKey
PXQPEWDEAKTCGB-UHFFFAOYSA-NInChI
InChI=1S/C5H4N2O4/c8-3-1-2(4(9)10)6-5(11)7-3/h1H,(H,9,10)(H2,6,7,8,11)Weigh it out
Type any one amount. The others follow from the molar mass.
Names and synonyms
18 names · show all
- 4-Pyrimidinecarboxylic acid, 1,2,3,6-tetrahydro-2,6-dioxo-
- 1,2,3,6-Tetrahydro-2,6-dioxo-4-pyrimidinecarboxylic acid
- Animal galactose factor
- 6-Carboxyuracil
- 6-Uracilcarboxylic acid
- Whey factor
- 2,6-Dihydroxy-4-pyrimidinecarboxylic acid
- Oroturic
- Orotyl
- Orodin
- Orotonin
- 2,6-Dioxo-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyrimidine-4-carboxylic acid
- NSC 79560
- NSC 9791
- Vitamin B13
- 2,4-Dihydroxypyrimidine-6-carboxylic acid
- 2,4-Dioxo-1H-pyrimidine-6-carboxylic acid
- 2-Hydroxy-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyrimidine-4-carboxylic acid
Work with Orotic acid
Stereoisomers, salts and isotopologues
The same compound in another form: other stereochemistry, a salt or hydrate, the free acid or base, or an isotope-labelled version.
Similar compounds
Methyl 1,2,3,6-tetrahydro-2,6-dioxo-4-pyrimidinecarboxylate6153-44-256 % similar
Citrazinic acid99-11-655 % similar
6-Hydroxypyrimidine-4-carboxylic acid6299-87-255 % similar
6-Hydroxypicolinic acid19621-92-250 % similar
4-Bromo-2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic Acid162102-81-048 % similar
4-Chloro-2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic Acid4722-94-548 % similar
4,6-Pyrimidine dicarboxylic acid16490-02-144 % similar
Dipicolinic acid499-83-244 % similar
Tanimoto similarity of circular fingerprints over the whole catalogue.