Methenamine

• Formula: C₆H₁₂N₄
• Molecular weight: 140.1863
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C6H12N4/c1-7-2-9-4-8(1)5-10(3-7)6-9/h1-6H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: VKYKSIONXSXAKP-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 100-97-0
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: 1,3,5,7-Tetraazaadamantane; 1,3,5,7-Tetraazatricyclo[3.3.1.13,7]decane; Hexamethylenetetramine; Aceto HMT; Aminoform; Aminoformaldehyde; Ammoform; Ammonioformaldehyde; Antihydral; Cystogen; Duirexol; Ekagom H; Formamine; Formin; Herax UTS; Heterin; Hexa-Flo-Pulver; Hexaform; Hexamine; Hexasan; Methenamin; Preparation AF; Uramin; Uratrine; Uritone; Urodeine; Urotropin; Urotropine; Xametrin; 1,3,5,7-Tetraazatricyclo-[3.3.1.1(3,7)]decane; Cystamin; Hexaloids; Hexamethylenetetraamine; Hexamethylentetramin; Hexilmethylenamine; Resotropin; Nocceler H; Vulkacit H 30; Hexa; H.M.T.; HMT; Metramine; Vesaloin; Formin (heterocycle); Hexamethylenamine; Hexamine (heterocycle); Sanceler H
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Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DRB - Donald R. Burgess, Jr.

Enthalpy of sublimation

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

Ionization energy determinations

References

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Verevkin, 2002
Verevkin, Sergey P., Relationships among strain energies of mono- and poly-cyclic cyclohexanoid molecules and strain of their component rings, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 2002, 34, 2, 263-275, https://doi.org/10.1006/jcht.2001.0896 . [all data]

Mansson, Rapport, et al., 1970
Mansson, M.; Rapport, N.; Westrum, E.F., Jr., Enthalpies of formation of globular molecules. I. Adamantane and hexamethylenetetramine, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1970, 92, 7296-7299. [all data]

Wada, Kishida, et al., 1960
Wada, Tadayoshi; Kishida, Etsuko; Tomiie, Yujiro; Suga, Hiroshi; Seki, Syûzô; Nitta, Isamu, Crystal Structure and Thermodynamical Investigations of Triethylenediamine, C6H12N2, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 1960, 33, 9, 1317-1318, https://doi.org/10.1246/bcsj.33.1317 . [all data]

Westrum, Mansson, et al., 1970
Westrum, Edgar F.; Mansson, Margret.; Rapport, Naomi., Enthalpies of formation of globular molecules. I. Adamantane and hexamethylenetetramine, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1970, 92, 25, 7296-7299, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00728a011 . [all data]

Stephenson and Malanowski, 1987
Stephenson, Richard M.; Malanowski, Stanislaw, Handbook of the Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds, 1987, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3173-2 . [all data]

De Wit, Van Miltenburg, et al., 1983
De Wit, H.G.M.; Van Miltenburg, J.C.; De Kruif, C.G., Thermodynamic properties of molecular organic crystals containing nitrogen, oxygen, and sulphur 1. Vapour pressures and enthalpies of sublimation, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 1983, 15, 7, 651-663, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9614(83)90079-4 . [all data]

Budurov, 1960
Budurov, S., Izv. Khim. Inst. Bulg. Akad. Nauk, 1960, 7, 281. [all data]

Dewar and Worley, 1969
Dewar, M.J.S.; Worley, S.D., Photoelectron spectra of molecules. I. Ionization potentials of some organic molecules and their interpretation, J. Chem. Phys., 1969, 50, 654. [all data]

Cowley, Lattman, et al., 1982
Cowley, A.H.; Lattman, M.; Stricklen, P.M.; Verkade, J.G., UV photoelectron spectroscopic investigation of some polycyclic group 5A compounds and related acyclic species. 1. Free and coordinated aminophosphines and related compounds, Inorg. Chem., 1982, 21, 543. [all data]

Nelsen and Buschek, 1974
Nelsen, S.F.; Buschek, J.M., Photoelectron spectra of some cyclic di- and polyamines. Lone pair-lone pair interaction in 1,3- and 1,4-diamines, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1974, 96, 7930. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation
  ΔsubH°	Enthalpy of sublimation at standard conditions

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