Constituent Deoxyribonucleic acid sodium salt (DNA) | SSHADE

Constituent

Name: Deoxyribonucleic acid sodium salt (DNA)

Family: molecular solid
Class: mixed molecular solid
Compound type: organic molecular solid

Constituent abundance in material

Relevance: main - major
Arrangement: single phase
Mass fraction: 1.0

Chemical composition

Isotope mixture type: terrestrial abundance

	Formula	Name	Family	Number min-max	Mole fraction	Mass fraction	State	Relevance	Comments
	$C$	Carbon	element				constituent element	main
	$H$	Hydrogen	element				constituent element	main
	$O$	Oxygen	element				constituent element	main
	$N$	Nitrogen	element				constituent element	main
	$P$	Phosphorus	element				constituent element	main
	$Na$	Sodium	element				constituent element	main

Composition comments: polymer of nucleotides, each nucleotide is composed of a nucleobase (guanine, adenine, cytosine, and thymine), linked to a backbone made of sugars (deoxyribose) and phosphate groups

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical functions

	Function	Number
	$R-NH_2$
	$R-NH-R$

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number
	$\geq C-H$
	$>N-H$
	$>C=O$
	$\geq C-C \leq$
	$>C=C<$
	$\geq C-N<$
	$\eqslantgtr C-N<$
	$>C=N-$
	$=P-O^-$
	$P=O$

Phase type: unknown

Crystals and texture

Texture: macromolecular

Optical properties

Color: white