Acetic anhydride

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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Glushko Thermocenter, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
gas93.200cal/mol*KN/AStull D.R., 1969 

Constant pressure heat capacity of gas

Cp,gas (cal/mol*K) Temperature (K) Reference Comment
23.78298.15Stull D.R., 1969Selected values were based on an approximation of heat capacities from Cp(T) values of acetic acid.
23.910300.
30.860400.
36.781500.
41.620600.
45.741700.
48.910800.
51.640900.
54.1111000.

Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δfliquid-149.39 ± 0.81kcal/molCmGuthrie, 1974Reanalyzed by Pedley, Naylor, et al., 1986, Original value = -150.2 ± 0.80 kcal/mol; Heat of hydrolysis[kcal/mol]=-40.6±0.80; ALS

Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid

Cp,liquid (cal/mol*K) Temperature (K) Reference Comment
40.20303.2Phillip, 1939DH

Phase change data

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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
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Tboil412. ± 5.KAVGN/AAverage of 10 values; Individual data points
Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Tfus200. ± 1.KAVGN/AAverage of 8 values; Individual data points
Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Tc606.KN/AAmbrose and Ghiassee, 1987Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 4. K; decomposition of sample prevented accurate measurement, reported value based partly on a correlation; TRC
Tc569.KN/AVespigniani, 1903Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 20. K; TRC
Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Pc39.48atmN/AAmbrose and Ghiassee, 1987Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 1.97 atm; based partly on a corelation because of decompostion of smp.; TRC
Pc46.19atmN/AVespigniani, 1903Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 4.000 atm; TRC

Reduced pressure boiling point

Tboil (K) Pressure (atm) Reference Comment
317.20.020Weast and Grasselli, 1989BS
317.0.020Buckingham and Donaghy, 1982BS

Enthalpy of vaporization

ΔvapH (kcal/mol) Temperature (K) Method Reference Comment
10.3364.EBAmbrose and Ghiassee, 1987, 2Based on data from 349. to 429. K.; AC
11.4428.AStephenson and Malanowski, 1987Based on data from 413. to 526. K.; AC
10.9335.AStephenson and Malanowski, 1987Based on data from 320. to 413. K. See also Dykyj, 1971.; AC
10.6351.N/AMcDonald, Shrader, et al., 1959Based on data from 336. to 412. K.; AC

Antoine Equation Parameters

log10(P) = A − (B / (T + C))
    P = vapor pressure (atm)
    T = temperature (K)

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Temperature (K) A B C Reference
335.99 to 412.574.240841427.77-75.113McDonald, Shrader, et al., 1959

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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
RCD - Robert C. Dunbar

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Individual Reactions

Acetic anhydride + Water = 2Acetic acid

By formula: C4H6O3 + H2O = 2C2H4O2

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr-13.53 ± 0.96kcal/molCmBecker and Maelicke, 1967liquid phase; ALS
Δr-14.00 ± 0.09kcal/molCmWadso, 1962liquid phase; ALS
Δr-14.0 ± 0.1kcal/molCmConn, Kistiakowsky, et al., 1942liquid phase; Heat of hydrolysis at 303 K; ALS

Acetic anhydride + 1-Butanamine = Acetamide, N-butyl- + Acetic acid

By formula: C4H6O3 + C4H11N = C6H13NO + C2H4O2

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr-27.06 ± 0.11kcal/molCmWadso, 1962liquid phase; ALS
Δr-39.13 ± 0.06kcal/molCmWadso, 1958liquid phase; Heat of aminolysis; ALS

Sodium ion (1+) + Acetic anhydride = (Sodium ion (1+) • Acetic anhydride)

By formula: Na+ + C4H6O3 = (Na+ • C4H6O3)

Free energy of reaction

ΔrG° (kcal/mol) T (K) Method Reference Comment
31.1298.IMREMcMahon and Ohanessian, 2000Anchor alanine=39.89; RCD

Acetic anhydride + 2Acetic acid, methoxy- = Acetic acid, methoxy-, anhydride + 2Acetic acid

By formula: C4H6O3 + 2C3H6O3 = C6H10O5 + 2C2H4O2

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr0.0kcal/molEqkUtkin, Bogel'fer, et al., 1991liquid phase; NMR; ALS

2Acetic acid = Acetic anhydride + Water

By formula: 2C2H4O2 = C4H6O3 + H2O

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr15.22 ± 0.28kcal/molEqkKnopp, Linnell, et al., 1962liquid phase; ALS

Acetic anhydride + Aniline = Acetamide, N-phenyl- + Acetic acid

By formula: C4H6O3 + C6H7N = C8H9NO + C2H4O2

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr-24.11 ± 0.06kcal/molCmWadso, 1962liquid phase; ALS

Acetyl nitrate + Acetic acid = Acetic anhydride + Nitric acid

By formula: C2H3NO4 + C2H4O2 = C4H6O3 + HNO3

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr3.99kcal/molCmTsvetkov, Shmakov, et al., 1989liquid phase; ALS

Acetic anhydride + Cytidine = Cytidine, N-acetyl- + Acetic acid

By formula: C4H6O3 + C9H13N3O5 = C11H15N3O6 + C2H4O2

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr-10.5kcal/molKinShatynski and Hanesian, 1993solid phase; ALS

Ketene + Acetic acid = Acetic anhydride

By formula: C2H2O + C2H4O2 = C4H6O3

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr-20.9 ± 0.53kcal/molEqkBlake, Davies, et al., 1971gas phase; ALS

IR Spectrum

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Data compiled by: NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center, William E. Wallace, director


Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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References

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Stull D.R., 1969
Stull D.R., Jr., The Chemical Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds. Wiley, New York, 1969. [all data]

Guthrie, 1974
Guthrie, J.P., Hydration of carboxamides. Evaluation of the free energy change for addition of water to acetamide and formamide derivatives, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1974, 96, 3608-3615. [all data]

Pedley, Naylor, et al., 1986
Pedley, J.B.; Naylor, R.D.; Kirby, S.P., Thermochemical Data of Organic Compounds, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1986, 1-792. [all data]

Phillip, 1939
Phillip, N.M., Adiabatic and isothermal compressibilities of liquids, Proc. Indian Acad. Sci., 1939, A9, 109-120. [all data]

Ambrose and Ghiassee, 1987
Ambrose, D.; Ghiassee, N.B., Vapor Pressure, Critical Temperature and Critical Pressure of Acetic Anhydride, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1987, 19, 911. [all data]

Vespigniani, 1903
Vespigniani, G.R., Gazz. Chim. Ital., 1903, 33, 73-8. [all data]

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]

Buckingham and Donaghy, 1982
Buckingham, J.; Donaghy, S.M., Dictionary of Organic Compounds: Fifth Edition, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1982, 1. [all data]

Ambrose and Ghiassee, 1987, 2
Ambrose, D.; Ghiassee, N.B., Vapour pressure, critical temperature, and critical pressure of acetic anhydride, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 1987, 19, 9, 911-913, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9614(87)90037-1 . [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]

Dykyj, 1971
Dykyj, J., Petrochemia, 1971, 11, 2, 27. [all data]

McDonald, Shrader, et al., 1959
McDonald, R.A.; Shrader, S.A.; Stull, D.R., Vapor Pressures and Freezing Points of Thirty Pure Organic Compounds., J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1959, 4, 4, 311-313, https://doi.org/10.1021/je60004a009 . [all data]

Becker and Maelicke, 1967
Becker, F.; Maelicke, A., Thermokinetische Messungen nach dem Prinzip der Wärmefluβkalorimetrie, Z. Phys. Chem. (Neue Folge), 1967, 55, 280-295. [all data]

Wadso, 1962
Wadso, I., Heats of aminolysis and hydrolysis of some N-acetyl compounds and of acetic anhydride, Acta Chem. Scand., 1962, 16, 471-478. [all data]

Conn, Kistiakowsky, et al., 1942
Conn, J.B.; Kistiakowsky, G.B.; Roberts, R.M.; Smith, E.A., Heats of organic reactions. XIII. Heats of hydrolysis of some acid anhydrides, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1942, 64, 1747-17. [all data]

Wadso, 1958
Wadso, I., The heats of aminolysis of n-butyl thiolacetate and acetic anhydride, Acta Chem. Scand., 1958, 12, 635-640. [all data]

McMahon and Ohanessian, 2000
McMahon, T.B.; Ohanessian, G., An Experimental and Ab Initio Study of the Nature of the Binding in Gas-Phase Complexes of Sodium Ions, Chem. Eur. J., 2000, 6, 16, 2931, https://doi.org/10.1002/1521-3765(20000818)6:16<2931::AID-CHEM2931>3.0.CO;2-7 . [all data]

Utkin, Bogel'fer, et al., 1991
Utkin, A.Yu.; Bogel'fer, L.Ya.; Chimishkyan, A.L., Reversible reactions in the acidolysis of methyoxyacetic acid by acetic anhydride, Russ. J. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.), 1991, 65, 1049-1059, In original 1974. [all data]

Knopp, Linnell, et al., 1962
Knopp, J.A.; Linnell, W.S.; Child, W.C., Jr., The thermodynamics of the thermal decomposition of acetic acid in the liquid phase, J. Phys. Chem., 1962, 66, 1513-1516. [all data]

Tsvetkov, Shmakov, et al., 1989
Tsvetkov, V.G.; Shmakov, V.A.; Sopin, V.F.; Ivanov, A.V.; Ikonnikov, A.A.; Marchenko, G.N., Enthalpies of reaction of nitric acid with acetic and trifluoroacetic anhydrides, J. Gen. Chem. USSR, 1989, 59, 1220-1222. [all data]

Shatynski and Hanesian, 1993
Shatynski, J.J.; Hanesian, D., Adiabatic kinetic studies of the cytidine/acetic anhydride reaction by utilizing temperature versus time data, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 1993, 32, 594-599. [all data]

Blake, Davies, et al., 1971
Blake, P.G.; Davies, H.H.; Speis, A., Reactions of keten. Part II. The thermodynamics of the gas-phase equilibrium: acetic acid + keten = acetic anhydride, J. Chem. Soc. B, 1971, 2050-2052. [all data]


Notes

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