Constituent Seleno DL-methionine (SeMet) | SSHADE

Constituent

Name: Seleno DL-methionine (SeMet)
Official name: Selenomethionine

Family: molecular solid
Class: hydrogen bonded molecular solid
Compound type: organic molecular solid

Constituent abundance in material

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

Chemical composition

Formula: $CH_3Se(CH2)_2CH(NH_2)COOH$
Chemical formula: CH3SeC3H5(NH2)COOH
Elemental formula: C5 H11 O2 N Se
Isotope mixture type: terrestrial abundance

	Formula	Name	Family	Number min-max	Mole fraction	Isotope mole fraction	State	Relevance
	$CH_3Se(CH_2)_2CH(NH_2)COOH$	Selenomethionine	molecule	1	1.0	1	pure	main

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical functions

	Function	Number	Relevance
	$R-CH_3$	1	main
	$R-CH_2-R$	1	main
	$R-NH_2$	1	main
	$R-C(=O)-OH$	1	main

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number	Relevance
	$-O \dots H-$	3
	$\geq C-H$	8	main
	$-O-H$	1	main
	$>N-H$	2	main
	$\geq C-Se-$	2	main
	$\geq C-C \leq$	2	main
	$\eqslantgtr C-C\leq$	1	main
	$\geq C-N<$	1	main
	$>C=O$	1	main
	$\eqslantgtr C-O-$	1	main

Class: molecular solids with hydrogen bonded molecules (03)

Phase type: crystalline

Texture: polycrystalline

Physical properties

Molar mass: 196.11 $g/mol$