2-Butene

• Formula: C₄H₈
• Molecular weight: 56.1063
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H8/c1-3-4-2/h3-4H,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: IAQRGUVFOMOMEM-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 107-01-7
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• Stereoisomers:
  • 2-Butene, (Z)-
  • 2-Butene, (E)-
• Other names: β-Butene; β-Butylene; Pseudobutylene; CH3CH=CHCH3; But-2-ene
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IR Spectrum

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Gas Phase Spectrum

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Gas Chromatography

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Kovats' RI, non-polar column, isothermal

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References

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Zhang, Li, et al., 1992
Zhang, M.J.; Li, S.D.; Chen, B.J., Compositional studies of high-temperature coal tar by GC/FTIR analysis of light oil fractions, Chromatographia, 1992, 33, 3/4, 138-146, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02275894 . [all data]

Shimoda and Shibamoto, 1990
Shimoda, M.; Shibamoto, T., Isolation and identification of headspace volatiles from brewed coffee with an on-column GC/MS method, J. Agric. Food Chem., 1990, 38, 3, 802-804, https://doi.org/10.1021/jf00093a045 . [all data]

Zaikin and Borisov, 2002
Zaikin, V.G.; Borisov, R.S., Chromatographic-mass spectrometric analysis of Fishcer-Tropsch synthesis products, J. Anal. Chem. USSR (Engl. Transl.), 2002, 57, 6, 544-551. [all data]

Notes

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