Salts or
esters of carbamic acid,
H2NC(=O)OH,
or of
N-substituted carbamic acids
R2NC(=O)OR',
(
R'
= hydrocarbyl or a
cation). The
esters are often called
urethanes or urethans, a usage that is strictly correct only for the ethyl
esters.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1307
(Glossary of class names of organic compounds and reactivity intermediates based on
structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995))
on page 1323
InChI=1/CH3NO2/c2-1(3)4/h2H2,(H,3,4)/f/h3H
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
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