Basic Info

Common NameThiourea(F05587)
2D Structure
Description

Thiourea is an organic compound of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and hydrogen, with the formula CSN2H4 or (NH2)2CS. It is similar to urea, except that the oxygen atom is replaced by a sulfur atom. The properties of urea and thiourea differ significantly because of the relative electronegativities of sulfur and oxygen. Thiourea is a versatile reagent in organic synthesis. "Thioureas" refers to a broad class of compounds with the general structure (R1R2N)(R3R4N)C=S. Thioureas are related to thioamides, e.g. RC(S)NR2, where R is methyl, ethyl, etc. Thiourea is prohibited from use in food. Industrial uses of thiourea include production of flame retardant resins, and vulcanization accelerators. Thiourea is used as an auxiliary agent in diazo paper (light-sensitive photocopy paper) and almost all other types of copy paper. It is also used to tone silver-gelatin photographic prints. The liquid silver cleaning product TarnX is essentially a solution of thiourea. A leaching agent for gold leaching and silver leaching can be created by selectively oxidizing thiourea, bypassing the steps of cyanide use and smelting. Another common application for use of thiourea is a common sulfur source for making semiconductor cadmium sulfide nanoparticle. Thiourea is a planar molecule. The C=S bond distance is 1.60±0.1 for a wide range of derivatives. This narrow range indicates that the C=S bond is insensitive to the nature of the substitutent. Thus, the thioamide, which is similar to an amide group, is difficult to perturb. Thiourea reduces peroxides to the corresponding diols. The intermediate of the reaction is an unstable epidioxide which can only be identified at -100 °C. Epidioxide is similar to epoxide except with two oxygen atoms. This intermediate reduces to diol by thiourea.

Thiourea has been shown to exhibit anti-viral, anti-fungal and radical scavenger functions (A7927, A7928, A7929).

FRCD IDF05587
CAS Number62-56-6
PubChem CID2723790
FormulaCH4N2S
IUPAC Name

thiourea

InChI Key

UMGDCJDMYOKAJW-UHFFFAOYSA-N

InChI

InChI=1S/CH4N2S/c2-1(3)4/h(H4,2,3,4)

Canonical SMILES

C(=S)(N)N

Isomeric SMILES

C(=S)(N)N

WikipediaThiourea
Synonyms
        
            2-Thiopseudourea
        
            THIOUREA
        
            Thiocarbamide
        
            62-56-6
        
            2-Thiourea
        
            Pseudothiourea
        
            Isothiourea
        
            Sulourea
        
            Sulfourea
        
            Thiuronium
        
Classifies
                

                  
                    Predicted: Pollutant
                  

                
        
Update DateNov 13, 2018 17:07

Chemical Taxonomy

KingdomOrganic compounds
SuperclassOrganosulfur compounds
ClassThioureas
SubclassNot available
Intermediate Tree NodesNot available
Direct ParentThioureas
Alternative Parents
Molecular FrameworkAliphatic acyclic compounds
SubstituentsThiourea - Organic nitrogen compound - Organopnictogen compound - Hydrocarbon derivative - Organonitrogen compound - Aliphatic acyclic compound
DescriptionThis compound belongs to the class of organic compounds known as thioureas. These are organic compounds containing the thiourea functional group, a derivative of urea with the general structure (R1(N)R2C(=S)(R3)R4, R1-R4=H, alkyl, aryl), obtained by replacing the carbonyl group of urea with a thiocarbonyl group.

Properties

Property NameProperty Value
Molecular Weight76.117
Hydrogen Bond Donor Count2
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count1
Rotatable Bond Count0
Complexity29
Monoisotopic Mass76.01
Exact Mass76.01
XLogP-0.8
Formal Charge0
Heavy Atom Count4
Defined Atom Stereocenter Count0
Undefined Atom Stereocenter Count0
Defined Bond Stereocenter Count0
Undefined Bond Stereocenter Count0
Isotope Atom Count0
Covalently-Bonded Unit Count1

ADMET

Model Result Probability
Absorption
Blood-Brain BarrierBBB+0.8912
Human Intestinal AbsorptionHIA+0.8750
Caco-2 PermeabilityCaco2-0.6739
P-glycoprotein SubstrateNon-substrate0.8850
P-glycoprotein InhibitorNon-inhibitor0.9659
Non-inhibitor0.9911
Renal Organic Cation TransporterNon-inhibitor0.9208
Distribution
Subcellular localizationLysosome0.7130
Metabolism
CYP450 2C9 SubstrateNon-substrate0.8293
CYP450 2D6 SubstrateNon-substrate0.7747
CYP450 3A4 SubstrateNon-substrate0.8692
CYP450 1A2 InhibitorNon-inhibitor0.7773
CYP450 2C9 InhibitorNon-inhibitor0.7438
CYP450 2D6 InhibitorNon-inhibitor0.9696
CYP450 2C19 InhibitorNon-inhibitor0.8765
CYP450 3A4 InhibitorNon-inhibitor0.9049
CYP Inhibitory PromiscuityLow CYP Inhibitory Promiscuity0.8547
Excretion
Toxicity
Human Ether-a-go-go-Related Gene InhibitionWeak inhibitor0.9793
Non-inhibitor0.9680
AMES ToxicityNon AMES toxic0.9708
CarcinogensNon-carcinogens0.7402
Fish ToxicityHigh FHMT0.6397
Tetrahymena Pyriformis ToxicityHigh TPT0.6988
Honey Bee ToxicityHigh HBT0.6980
BiodegradationNot ready biodegradable0.7962
Acute Oral ToxicityII0.7109
Carcinogenicity (Three-class)Non-required0.5253

Model Value Unit
Absorption
Aqueous solubility0.2573LogS
Caco-2 Permeability0.8903LogPapp, cm/s
Distribution
Metabolism
Excretion
Toxicity
Rat Acute Toxicity3.1168LD50, mol/kg
Fish Toxicity2.4468pLC50, mg/L
Tetrahymena Pyriformis Toxicity0.3966pIGC50, ug/L

References

TitleJournalDatePubmed ID
Effect of Diafenthiuron exposure under short and long term experimentalconditions on hematology, serum biochemical profile and elemental composition of a non-target organism, Labeo rohita.Environ Toxicol Pharmacol2018 Sep29957367
Magnetic mesoporous thiourea-formaldehyde resin as selective adsorbent: A simple and highly-sensitive electroanalysis strategy for lead ions in drinking water andmilk by solid state-based anodic stripping.Food Chem2018 Jan 1528873584
Antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and enzyme inhibitory activity of natural plant flavonoids and their synthesized derivatives.J Biochem Mol Toxicol2018 Jan28972678
Determination of inorganic arsenic in algae using bromine halogenation and on-line nonpolar solid phase extraction followed by hydride generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry.Talanta2017 Aug 128501152
Bactericidal activity of alpha-bromocinnamaldehyde against persisters in Escherichia coli.PLoS One201728750057
Asymmetric Synthesis and Bioselective Activities of α-Amino-phosphonates Based onthe Dufulin Motif.J Agric Food Chem2016 Jun 127166879
Sulfur crosslinks from thermal degradation of chitosan dithiocarbamatederivatives and thermodynamic study for sorption of copper and cadmium fromaqueous system.Environ Sci Pollut Res Int2016 Jan26538256
Biosorption using chitosan thiourea polymer as an extraction and preconcentrationtechnique for copper prior to its determination in environmental and food samplesby flame atomic absorption spectrometry: Synthesis, characterization andanalytical applications.Int J Biol Macromol2016 Dec27565297
Adsorptive removal of patulin from aqueous solution using thiourea modified chitosan resin.Int J Biol Macromol2015 Sep26188299
Synthesis of an imprinted polymer for the determination of methylmercury inmarine products.Talanta2015 Nov 126452871
Application of "hydrogen bonding interaction" in new drug development: design,synthesis, antiviral activity, and SARs of thiourea derivatives.J Agric Food Chem2015 Feb 1125619875
Characterization of a flavin-containing monooxygenase from Corynebacteriumglutamicum and its application to production of indigo and indirubin.Biotechnol Lett2015 Aug25851950
Efficient generation of volatile species for cadmium analysis in seafood and ricesamples by a modified chemical vapor generation system coupled with atomicfluorescence spectrometry.Anal Chim Acta2015 Apr 1525818135
Synthesis and characterization of a novel mesoporous silica functionalized with[1,5 bis(di-2-pyridyl)methylene thiocarbohydrazide] and its application asenrichment sorbent for determination of antimony by FI-HG-ETAAS.Talanta2014 Nov25127557
Solid phase extraction of trace amounts of silver, cadmium, copper, mercury, and lead in various food samples based on ethylene glycol bis-mercaptoacetatemodified 3-(trimethoxysilyl)-1-propanethiol coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles.Food Chem2014 May 1524423536
In vitro inhibition effect and structure-activity relationships of some saccharinderivatives on erythrocyte carbonic anhydrase I and II.J Enzyme Inhib Med Chem2014 Feb23339426
Differential mechanism of Escherichia coli Inactivation by (+)-limonene as afunction of cell physiological state and drug's concentration.PLoS One2014 Apr 424705541
Thiourea, a ROS scavenger, regulates source-to-sink relationship to enhance crop yield and oil content in Brassica juncea (L.).PLoS One2013 Sep 1824058504
Rapid detection of economic adulterants in fresh milk by liquidchromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.J Chromatogr A2013 May 323540766
Human taste receptor-functionalized field effect transistor as a human-like nanobioelectronic tongue.Nano Lett2013 Jan 923176205

Targets

General Function:
Zinc ion binding
Specific Function:
Nuclear hormone receptor. The steroid hormones and their receptors are involved in the regulation of eukaryotic gene expression and affect cellular proliferation and differentiation in target tissues. Ligand-dependent nuclear transactivation involves either direct homodimer binding to a palindromic estrogen response element (ERE) sequence or association with other DNA-binding transcription factors, such as AP-1/c-Jun, c-Fos, ATF-2, Sp1 and Sp3, to mediate ERE-independent signaling. Ligand binding induces a conformational change allowing subsequent or combinatorial association with multiprotein coactivator complexes through LXXLL motifs of their respective components. Mutual transrepression occurs between the estrogen receptor (ER) and NF-kappa-B in a cell-type specific manner. Decreases NF-kappa-B DNA-binding activity and inhibits NF-kappa-B-mediated transcription from the IL6 promoter and displace RELA/p65 and associated coregulators from the promoter. Recruited to the NF-kappa-B response element of the CCL2 and IL8 promoters and can displace CREBBP. Present with NF-kappa-B components RELA/p65 and NFKB1/p50 on ERE sequences. Can also act synergistically with NF-kappa-B to activate transcription involving respective recruitment adjacent response elements; the function involves CREBBP. Can activate the transcriptional activity of TFF1. Also mediates membrane-initiated estrogen signaling involving various kinase cascades. Isoform 3 is involved in activation of NOS3 and endothelial nitric oxide production. Isoforms lacking one or several functional domains are thought to modulate transcriptional activity by competitive ligand or DNA binding and/or heterodimerization with the full length receptor. Essential for MTA1-mediated transcriptional regulation of BRCA1 and BCAS3. Isoform 3 can bind to ERE and inhibit isoform 1.
Gene Name:
ESR1
Uniprot ID:
P03372
Molecular Weight:
66215.45 Da
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