Methine group

In chemistry, a methine group or methine bridge is a trivalent functional group =CH−, derived formally from methane. It consists of a carbon atom bound by two single bonds and one double bond, where one of the single bonds is to a hydrogen. The group is also called methyne or methene; its IUPAC systematic name is methylylidene or methanylylidene[1]

Methine or methylylidene (IUPAC)

This group is sometimes called "methylidyne", however that name belongs properly to either the methylidyne group ≡CH (connected to the rest of the molecule by a triple bond) or to the methylidyne radical ⫶CH (the two atoms as a free molecule with dangling bonds).

The name "methine" is also widely used in non-systematic nomenclature for the methanetriyl group (IUPAC): a carbon atom with four single bonds, where one bond is to a hydrogen (>CH−).[2]

Overlapping methines

Two or more methine bridges can overlap, forming a chain or ring of carbon atoms connected by alternating single and double bonds, as in piperylene H
2C=CH−CH=CH−CH
3, or the compound

Every carbon atom in this molecule is a methine carbon atom, except for three; two that are attached to the two nitrogen atoms and not to any hydrogen atoms, and the one attached to the nitrogen atom, which is attached to two hydrogen atoms (far right). There is a five-carbon-atom poly-methine chain in the center of this molecule.

Chains of alternating single and double bonds often form conjugated systems. When closed, as in benzene (=CH−CH=)
3, they often give aromatic character to the compound.

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See also

References
  1. (2007) Methanylylidene group in the Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) database. Accessed on 2015-03-05.
  2. (2007) Methanetriyl group in the Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) database. Accessed on 2015-03-05.
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