Acetic anhydride

• Formula: C₄H₆O₃
• Molecular weight: 102.0886
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H6O3/c1-3(5)7-4(2)6/h1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: WFDIJRYMOXRFFG-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 108-24-7
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Acetic acid, anhydride; Acetic oxide; Acetyl anhydride; Acetyl ether; Acetyl oxide; Ethanoic anhydride; (CH3CO)2O; Ethanoic anhydrate; Acetanhydride; Anhydride acetique; Anhydrid kyseliny octove; Anidride acetica; Azijnzuuranhydride; Essigsaeureanhydrid; Octowy bezwodnik; UN 1715; Acetyl acetate; Acetic acid, 1,1'-anhydride
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  • IR Spectrum
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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

Constant pressure heat capacity of gas

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

View reactions leading to C₄H₆O₃⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

Ion clustering data

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Data compiled by: Robert C. Dunbar

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Clustering reactions

 +  = ( • )

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

Free energy of reaction

IR Spectrum

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Data compiled by: Coblentz Society, Inc.

• LIQUID (NEAT); BAIRD (GRATING); 2 cm^-1 resolution
• SOLUTION (2% IN CCl4 FOR 3800-1330, 2% IN CS2 FOR 1330-400 CM^-1); BECKMAN IR-9 (GRATING); DIGITIZED BY NIST FROM HARD COPY (FROM TWO SEGMENTS); 4 cm^-1 resolution

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

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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]

Bock, Hirabayashi, et al., 1981
Bock, H.; Hirabayashi, T.; Mohmand, S., Thermische erzeugung von alkyl- und halogenketenen, Chem. Ber., 1981, 114, 2595. [all data]

Traeger, McLouglin, et al., 1982
Traeger, J.C.; McLouglin, R.G.; Nicholson, A.J.C., Heat of formation for acetyl cation in the gas phase, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1982, 104, 5318. [all data]

Shigorin, Filyugina, et al., 1967
Shigorin, D.N.; Filyugina, A.D.; Potapov, V.K., Role of intramolecular hydrogen bonding in the ionisation and dissociation of compounds, Zh. Fiz. Khim., 1967, 41, 2336, In original 1255. [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]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Cp,gas	Constant pressure heat capacity of gas
  S°gas	Entropy of gas at standard conditions
  T	Temperature
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions

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