p-Cresol

• Formula: C₇H₈O
• Molecular weight: 108.1378
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C7H8O/c1-6-2-4-7(8)5-3-6/h2-5,8H,1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: IWDCLRJOBJJRNH-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 106-44-5
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• Other names: Phenol, 4-methyl-; p-Hydroxytoluene; p-Kresol; p-Methylhydroxybenzene; p-Methylphenol; p-Oxytoluene; p-Toluol; p-Tolyl alcohol; 1-Hydroxy-4-methylbenzene; 4-Cresol; 4-Hydroxytoluene; 4-Methylphenol; 1-Methyl-4-hydroxybenzene; Paracresol; Cresol, para; Paramethyl phenol; Rcra waste number U052; p-Cresylic acid; Cresol,p-; Phenol, 4-methyI; NSC 3696; 4-methylphenol ( p-cresol); p-Cresol (4-methylphenol)
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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
M - Michael M. Meot-Ner (Mautner) and Sharon G. Lias
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

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Individual Reactions

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Cl^- + C₇H₈O = (Cl^- • C₇H₈O)

Free energy of reaction

C₇H₇O^- +  =

By formula: C₇H₇O^- + H⁺ = C₇H₈O

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Br^- + C₇H₈O = (Br^- • C₇H₈O)

Free energy of reaction

 +  = ( • )

By formula: I^- + C₇H₈O = (I^- • C₇H₈O)

Free energy of reaction

 +  = 2

By formula: C₇H₈O + C₁₅H₂₄O = 2C₁₁H₁₆O

 +  =

By formula: C₇H₈O + C₄H₈ = C₁₁H₁₆O

References

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Cummings, French, et al., 1977
Cummings, J.B.; French, M.A.; Kebarle, P., Effect of charge delocalization on hydrogen bonding to negative ions and solvation of negative ions. Substituted phenols and phenoxide ions, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1977, 99, 6999. [all data]

French, Ikuta, et al., 1982
French, M.A.; Ikuta, S.; Kebarle, P., Hydrogen bonding of O-H and C-H hydrogen donors to Cl^-. Results from mass spectrometric measurement of the ion-molecule equilibria RH + Cl^- = RHCl^-, Can. J. Chem., 1982, 60, 1907. [all data]

Paul and Kebarle, 1990
Paul, G.J.C.; Kebarle, P., Stabilities in the Gas Phase of the Hydrogen Bonded Complexes, YC6H4OH-X-, of Substituted Phenols, YC6H4OH, with the Halide Anions X-(Cl-, Br-), Can. J. Chem., 1990, 68, 11, 2070, https://doi.org/10.1139/v90-316 . [all data]

Fujio, McIver, et al., 1981
Fujio, M.; McIver, R.T., Jr.; Taft, R.W., Effects on the acidities of phenols from specific substituent-solvent interactions. Inherent substituent parameters from gas phase acidities, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1981, 103, 4017. [all data]

Bartmess, Scott, et al., 1979
Bartmess, J.E.; Scott, J.A.; McIver, R.T., Jr., The gas phase acidity scale from methanol to phenol, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1979, 101, 6047. [all data]

Kebarle and McMahon, 1977
Kebarle, P.; McMahon, T.B., Intrinsic Acidities of Substituted Phenols and Benzoic Acids Determined by Gas Phase Proton Transfer Equilibria, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1977, 99, 7, 2222, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00449a032 . [all data]

Nesterova, Verevkin, et al., 1985
Nesterova, T.N.; Verevkin, S.P.; Malova, T.N.; Pilshchikov, V.A., Study of an equilibrium of tert-alkylphenols (thermodynamic analysis of the alkylation of phenols by branched olefins), Zh. Prikl. Khim. (Leningrad), 1985, 58, 827-833. [all data]

Verevkin, Nesterova, et al., 1984
Verevkin, S.P.; Nesterova, T.N.; Rozhnov, A.M., The equilibrium in the dealkylation of o-t-butyl-p-cresol, Russ. J. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.), 1984, 58, 284. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  T	Temperature
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrS°	Entropy of reaction at standard conditions

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