The amino(hydroxy)methyl radical (1) represents the simplest model for hydrogen atom adducts to the amide bond. Radical 1 was generated in the gas phase by femtosecond electron transfer to protonated formamide and found to be stable on the microsecond time scale. The major unimolecular dissociation of 1 was loss of the hydrogen atom from the hydroxyl group. Losses of hydrogen atoms from the CH and NH2 groups in 1 were less abundant. RRKM calculations on the G2(MP2), G2, and CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ potential energy surfaces predicted preferential loss of the hydroxyl hydrogen atom, in qualitative agreement with experiment. Bimolecular reactions of hydrogen atoms with formamide were predicted by calculations to prefer H atom abstraction from the H-C bond forming H-2 and NH2C double bondO(.). This reaction was calculated to be 43 kJ/mol exothermic and had to overcome an activation energy barrier of 28.5 kJ/mol. Hydrogen atom additions to the carbon and oxygen termini of the carbonyl group in formamide had similar activation energies, 51 and 49 kJ/mol, respectively. H atom addition to the C-terminus producing the aminomethyloxy radical (6) was calculated to be 2 kJ/mol endothermic.