3-Mercaptopropionic acid

• Formula: C₃H₆O₂S
• Molecular weight: 106.144
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C3H6O2S/c4-3(5)1-2-6/h6H,1-2H2,(H,4,5) Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: DKIDEFUBRARXTE-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 107-96-0
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: 3-Mercaptopropanoic acid; β-Mercaptopropionic acid; Propanoic acid, 3-mercapto-; β-Thiopropionic acid; Hydracrylic acid, 3-thio-; Mercaptopropionic acid; Propionic acid, 3-mercapto-; 3-Thiopropionic acid; 3MPA; 3-Thiopropanoic acid; 2-Mercaptoethanecarboxylic acid; NSC 437; β-Mercaptopropanoic acid; 3-Thiolpropanoic acid
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Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Reduced pressure boiling point

Enthalpy of fusion

Entropy of fusion

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: John E. Bartmess

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Individual Reactions

C₃H₅O₂S^- +  =

By formula: C₃H₅O₂S^- + H⁺ = C₃H₆O₂S

References

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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]

Domalski and Hearing, 1996
Domalski, Eugene S.; Hearing, Elizabeth D., Heat Capacities and Entropies of Organic Compounds in the Condensed Phase. Volume III, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1996, 25, 1, 1, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.555985 . [all data]

Huffman and Ellis, 1935
Huffman, H.M.; Ellis, E.L., Thermal data. III. The heat capacities, entropies and free energies of four organic compounds containing sulfur, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1935, 57, 46-48. [all data]

Caldwell, Renneboog, et al., 1989
Caldwell, G.; Renneboog, R.; Kebarle, P., Gas Phase Acidities of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids, Based on Measurements of Proton Transfer Equilibria, Can. J. Chem., 1989, 67, 4, 661, https://doi.org/10.1139/v89-092 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔfusS	Entropy of fusion
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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