Guanidine

Guanidine is the compound with the formula HNC(NH2)2. It is a colourless solid that dissolves in polar solvents. It is a strong base that is used in the production of plastics and explosives. It is found in urine predominantly in patients experiencing renal failure.[1] A guanidine moiety also appears in larger organic molecules, including on the side chain of arginine.

## Contents

* 1 Structure
* 2 Production
* 3 Chemistry
* 3.1 Guanidinium cation
* 3.2 Testing
* 4 Uses
* 4.1 Industry
* 4.2 Medicine
* 4.3 Biochemistry
* 4.4 Other
* 5 Guanidine derivatives
* 6 See also
* 7 References

## Structure

Guanidine can be thought of as a nitrogenous analogue of carbonic acid. That is, the C=O group in carbonic acid is replaced by a C=NH group, and each OH is replaced by a NH2 group.[2] A detailed crystallographic analysis of guanidine was elucidated 148 years after its first synthesis, despite the simplicity of the molecule.[3] In 2013, the positions of the hydrogen atoms and their displacement parameters were accurately determined using single-crystal neutron diffraction.[4]

## Production

Guanidine can be obtained from natural sources, being first isolated in 1861 by Adolph Strecker via the oxidative degradation of an aromatic natural product, guanine, isolated from Peruvian guano.[5][6]

A laboratory method of producing guanidine is gentle (180-190 °C) thermal decomposition of dry ammonium thiocyanate in anhydrous conditions:

3 NH
4SCN → 2 CH

3 \+ H
2S + CS

The commercial route involves a two step process starting with the reaction of dicyandiamide with ammonium salts. Via the intermediacy of biguanidine, this ammonolysis step affords salts of the guanidinium cation (see below). In the second step, the salt is treated with base, such as sodium methoxide.[5]

Isothiouronium salts (S-alkylated thioureas) react with amines to give guanidinium salts:[7]

RNH2 \+ [CH3SC(NH2)2]+X− → [RN(H)C(NH2)2]+X− \+ CH3SH

The resulting guanidinium ions can often be deprotonated to give the guanidine. This approach is sometimes called the Rathke synthesis, in honor of its discoverer Bernhard Rathke.[8][9]

## Chemistry

### Guanidinium cation

The conjugate acid is called the guanidinium cation, (C(NH2)+3). This planar, symmetric ion consists of three amino groups each bonded to the central carbon atom with a covalent bond of order 4/3. It is a highly stable +1 cation in aqueous solution due to the efficient resonance stabilization of the charge and efficient solvation by water molecules. As a result, its pKaH is 13.6[10] (pKb of 0.4) meaning that guanidine is a very strong base in water; in neutral water, it exists almost exclusively as guanidinium. Due to this, most guanidine derivatives are salts containing the conjugate acid.

* ball-and-stick model

* resonance hybrid

* canonical forms

### Testing

Guanidine can be selectively detected using sodium 1,2-naphthoquinone-4-sulfonic acid (Folin's reagent) and acidified urea.[11]

## Uses

### Industry

The main salt of commercial interest is the nitrate [C(NH2)3]NO3. It is used as a propellant, for example in air bags.

### Medicine

Since the Middle Ages in Europe, guanidine has been used to treat diabetes as the active antihyperglycemic ingredient in French lilac. Due to its long-term hepatotoxicity, further research for blood sugar control was suspended at first after the discovery of insulin. Later development of nontoxic, safe biguanides led to the long-used first-line diabetes control medicine metformin, introduced to Europe in the 1950s & United States in 1995 and now prescribed to over 17 million patients per year in the US.[12][13]

Guanidinium chloride[12] is a now-controversial adjuvant in treatment of botulism. Recent studies have shown some significant subsets of patients who see no improvement after the administration of this drug.[14]

### Biochemistry

Guanidine exists protonated, as guanidinium, in solution at physiological pH.

Guanidinium chloride (also known as guanidine hydrochloride) has chaotropic properties and is used to denature proteins. Guanidinium chloride is known to denature proteins with a linear relationship between concentration and free energy of unfolding. In aqueous solutions containing 6 M guanidinium chloride, almost all proteins lose their entire secondary structure and become randomly coiled peptide chains. Guanidinium thiocyanate is also used for its denaturing effect on various biological samples.

Recent studies suggest that guanidinium is produced by bacteria as a toxic byproduct. To alleviate the toxicity of guanidinium, bacteria have developed a class of transporters known as guanidinium exporters or Gdx proteins to expel the extra amounts of this ion to the outside of the cell.[15] Gdx proteins, are highly selective for guanidinium and mono-substituted guanidinyl compounds and share an overlapping set of non-canonical substrates with drug exporter EmrE.[16]

### Other

Guanidinium hydroxide is the active ingredient in some non-lye hair relaxers.

## Guanidine derivatives

The general structure of a guanidine

Guanidines are a group of organic compounds sharing a common functional group with the general structure (R1R2N)(R3R4N)C=N−R5. The central bond within this group is that of an imine, and the group is related structurally to amidines and ureas. Examples of guanidines are arginine, triazabicyclodecene, saxitoxin, and creatine.

Galegine is an isoamylene guanidine.[17]

## See also

* Sakaguchi test
* Y-aromaticity
* Amidine

## References

1. ↑ "Plasma concentration and urinary excretion of guanidine derivatives in normal subjects and patients with renal failure". Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology & Physiology 2 (1): 1–15. 1975. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1681.1975.tb02368.x. PMID 1126056.
2. ↑ "First structural characterization of guanidine, HN=C(NH(2))(2)". Chemical Communications 43 (30): 3180–3182. August 2007. doi:10.1039/B705100J. PMID 17653381.
3. ↑ "Solid-state structure of free base guanidine achieved at last". Chemistry: A European Journal 15 (23): 5651–5655. June 2009. doi:10.1002/chem.200900508. PMID 19388036.
4. ↑ "Single-Crystal Neutron Diffraction Study on Guanidine, CN3H5". Crystal Growth & Design 13 (4): 1730–5. 2013. doi:10.1021/cg400054k.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. doi:10.1002/14356007.a12_545.pub2.
6. ↑ "Untersuchungen über die chemischen Beziehungen zwischen Guanin, Xanthin, Theobromin, Caffeïn und Kreatinin". Liebigs Ann. Chem. 118 (2): 151–177. 1861. doi:10.1002/jlac.18611180203. https://zenodo.org/record/1427163. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
7. ↑ Palmer, David C. (2001). "S-Methylisothiourea". E-EROS Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis. doi:10.1002/047084289X.rm199s. ISBN 0471936235.
8. ↑ "Heinrich Bernhard Rathke. (1840-1923)". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft (A and B Series) 57 (9): A83–A92. 8 October 1924. doi:10.1002/cber.19240570929.
9. ↑ Rathke, B. (July 1881). "Ueber Derivate und Constitution des Schwefelharnstoffs". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft 14 (2): 1774–1780. doi:10.1002/cber.18810140247. https://zenodo.org/record/1425246.
10. ↑ Dissociation Constants of Organic Bases in Aqueous Solution (Supplement ed.). London: Butterworths. 1972.
11. ↑ "A Colorimetric Test for Guanidine" (in en). Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 33 (1): 106–108. 1935-10-01. doi:10.3181/00379727-33-8270C. ISSN 0037-9727.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Treatment approach to type 2 diabetes: Past, present and future". World Journal of Diabetes 9 (12): 209–219. December 2018. doi:10.4239/wjd.v9.i12.209. PMID 30588282.
13. ↑ "The Top 300 of 2019". https://clincalc.com/DrugStats/Top300Drugs.aspx.
14. ↑ Pediatric Anaerobic Infections: Diagnosis and Management (3rd ed.). Taylor & Francis. 2001. p. 529. ISBN 0824741862.
15. ↑ "Guanidinium export is the primal function of SMR family transporters". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (12): 3060–3065. March 2018. doi:10.1073/pnas.1719187115. PMID 29507227. Bibcode: 2018PNAS..115.3060K.
16. ↑ "The structural basis of promiscuity in small multidrug resistance transporters". Nature Communications 11 (1): 6064. November 2020. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19820-8. PMID 33247110. Bibcode: 2020NatCo..11.6064K.
17. ↑ "The blooming of the French lilac". The Journal of Clinical Investigation 108 (8): 1105–1107. October 2001. doi:10.1172/JCI14178. PMID 11602616.

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