1-Butene

• Formula: C₄H₈
• Molecular weight: 56.1063
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H8/c1-3-4-2/h3H,1,4H2,2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: VXNZUUAINFGPBY-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 106-98-9
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• Other names: α-Butene; α-Butylene; But-1-ene; Butene-1; Ethylethylene; 1-Butylene; 1-C4H8
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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director

References

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Weast and Grasselli, 1989
CRC Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds, 2nd Editon, Weast,R.C and Grasselli, J.G., ed(s)., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 1989, 1. [all data]

Majer and Svoboda, 1985
Majer, V.; Svoboda, V., Enthalpies of Vaporization of Organic Compounds: A Critical Review and Data Compilation, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1985, 300. [all data]

Foehr and Fenske, 1949
Foehr, E.G.; Fenske, M.R., Magneto-optic Rotation of Hydrocarbons, Ind. Eng. Chem., 1949, 41, 1956. [all data]

Kozlov, 1948
Kozlov, N.S., The Boiling Points of Compounds of the Aliphatic Series, Neft. Khoz., 1948, 1948, No. 4, 47. [all data]

Hooper, 1947
Hooper, J.H.D., The analysis of hydrocarbon gases by low temperature distillation, Analyst (London), 1947, 72, 513-20. [all data]

Morrell, Paltz, et al., 1946
Morrell, C.E.; Paltz, W.J.; Packie, J.W.; Asbury, W.C.; Brown, C.L., Trans. Am. Inst. Chem. Eng., 1946, 42, 473. [all data]

Benoliel, 1941
Benoliel, R.W., Some Physical Constants of Seven Four-Carbon-Atom Hydrocarbons and Neopentane, M.S. Thesis, Penn. State Univ., Univ. Park, PA, 1941. [all data]

Van Pelt and Wibaut, 1941
Van Pelt, A.J.; Wibaut, J.P., The preparation of unsaturated hydrocarbons by the thermal decomposition of acetates., Recl. Trav. Chim. Pays-Bas, 1941, 60, 55. [all data]

Grosse, 1937
Grosse, A.V., Refractive Indices at Low Temperatures, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1937, 59, 2739-41. [all data]

Matuszak and Frey, 1937
Matuszak, M.P.; Frey, F.E., Seperating butenes from butanes. distillation of azeotropic mixtures with sulfur dioxide., Anal. Chem., 1937, 9, 111. [all data]

Hurd and Goldsby, 1934
Hurd, C.D.; Goldsby, A.R., Rearrangement during pyrolysis of the butenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1934, 56, 1812-4. [all data]

Komarewsky, Johnstone, et al., 1934
Komarewsky, V.I.; Johnstone, W.; Yoder, P., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1934, 56, 2705. [all data]

Davis, Thomson, et al., 1932
Davis, H.S.; Thomson, G.; Crandall, G.S., The role of liquid stationary films in batch absorption of gases: III rates of hydrogen absorption and relative rates of catalytic hydrogenation in alcohol, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1932, 54, 2340. [all data]

Lucas, Dillon, et al., 1930
Lucas, H.J.; Dillon, R.T.; Young, W.G., Qualitative estimation of the composition of butene mixtures by distillation methods, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1930, 52, 1949. [all data]

Davis, 1929
Davis, H.S., Problems in the estimation of unsaturated hydrocarbons in gases: I separation by fractional distillation, Ind. Eng. Chem., Anal. Ed., 1929, 1, 61. [all data]

Lucas and Dillon, 1928
Lucas, H.J.; Dillon, R.T., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1928, 50, 1460. [all data]

Lagerlof, 1918
Lagerlof, D., Thermodynamic research: reduced formulas for simplified calculations of latent molar heat of evaporation, J. Prakt. Chem., 1918, 98, 136. [all data]

Notes

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