Cyclohexane, methyl-

• Formula: C₇H₁₄
• Molecular weight: 98.1861
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C7H14/c1-7-5-3-2-4-6-7/h7H,2-6H2,1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: UAEPNZWRGJTJPN-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 108-87-2
• Chemical structure:
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• Isotopologues:
  • Methylcyclohexane-d14
• Other names: Cyclohexylmethane; Hexahydrotoluene; Methylcyclohexane; Sextone B; Toluene hexahydride; Hexahydroxytoluene; Metylocykloheksan; Toluene, hexahydro-; UN 2296; NSC 9391
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Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DRB - Donald R. Burgess, Jr.

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of vaporization

Δ_vapH = A exp(-βT_r) (1 − T_r)^β
    Δ_vapH = Enthalpy of vaporization (at saturation pressure) (kcal/mol)
    T_r = reduced temperature (T / T_c)

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Enthalpy of fusion

Entropy of fusion

References

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Douslin and Huffman, 1946
Douslin, D.R.; Huffman, H.M., The heat capacities, heats of transition, heats of fusion and entropies of cyclopentane, methylcyclopentane and methylcyclohexane., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1946, 68, 173. [all data]

Daubert, 1996
Daubert, T.E., Vapor-Liquid Critical Properties of Elements and Compounds. 5. Branched Alkanes and Cycloalkanes, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1996, 41, 365-372. [all data]

Kudchadker, Alani, et al., 1968
Kudchadker, A.P.; Alani, G.H.; Zwolinski, B.J., The Critical Constants of Organic Substances, Chem. Rev., 1968, 68, 659. [all data]

Kay, 1947
Kay, W.B., Vapor Pressures and Saturated Liquid and Vapor DEensities of Cyclopentane, Methylcyclopentane, Ethylcyclopentane, and Methylcyclohexane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1947, 69, 1273-7. [all data]

Simon, 1957
Simon, M., Methods and Apparatus Used at the Bureau of Physicochemical Standards XV. Critical Constants and Straight-Line Diameters of Ten Hydrocarbons, Bull. Soc. Chim. Belg., 1957, 66, 375-81. [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]

Sapei, Uusi-Kyyny, et al., 2010
Sapei, Erlin; Uusi-Kyyny, Petri; Keskinen, Kari I.; Alopaeus, Ville, Phase equilibria of binary systems of 3-methylthiophene with four different hydrocarbons, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2010, 288, 1-2, 155-160, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fluid.2009.11.004 . [all data]

Wu, Pividal, et al., 1991
Wu, Huey S.; Pividal, Katherine A.; Sandler, Stanley I., Vapor-liquid equilibria of hydrocarbons and fuel oxygenates, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1991, 36, 4, 418-421, https://doi.org/10.1021/je00004a021 . [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]

Valerga, 1970
Valerga, Antone J., Entropy and Related Thermodynamic Properties of Tetramethylgermane, J. Chem. Phys., 1970, 52, 9, 4545, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1673681 . [all data]

Boublik, Fried, et al., 1984
Boublik, T.; Fried, V.; Hala, E., The Vapour Pressures of Pure Substances: Selected Values of the Temperature Dependence of the Vapour Pressures of Some Pure Substances in the Normal and Low Pressure Region, 2nd ed., Elsevier, New York, 1984, 972. [all data]

Eubank, Cediel, et al., 1984
Eubank, P.T.; Cediel, L.E.; Holste, J.C.; Hall, K.R., Enthalpies for toluene and methylcyclohexane in the fluid state, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1984, 29, 389-393. [all data]

Majer, Svoboda, et al., 1979
Majer, Vladimír; Svoboda, Václav; Hála, Slavoj; Pick, Jirí, Temperature dependence of heats of vaporization of saturated hydrocarbons C5-C8; Experimental data and an estimation method, Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun., 1979, 44, 3, 637-651, https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19790637 . [all data]

Spitzer and Pitzer, 1946
Spitzer, Ralph; Pitzer, Kenneth S., The Heat Capacity of Gaseous Cyclopentane, Cyclohexane and Methylcyclohexane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1946, 68, 12, 2537-2538, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01216a032 . [all data]

Willingham, Taylor, et al., 1945
Willingham, C.B.; Taylor, W.J.; Pignocco, J.M.; Rossini, F.D., Vapor pressures and boiling points of some paraffin, alkylcyclopentane, alkylcyclohexane, and alkylbenzene hydrocarbons, J. RES. NATL. BUR. STAN., 1945, 35, 3, 219-17, https://doi.org/10.6028/jres.035.009 . [all data]

Stuckey and Saylor, 1940
Stuckey, James M.; Saylor, John H., The Vapor Pressures of Some Organic Compounds. I. ¹, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1940, 62, 11, 2922-2925, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01868a011 . [all data]

Douslin and Huffman, 1946, 2
Douslin, D.R.; Huffman, H.M., The heat capacities, heats of transition, heats of fusion and entropies of cyclopentane, methylcyclopentane and methylcylohexane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1946, 68, 173-176. [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]

Parks and Huffman, 1930
Parks, G.S.; Huffman, H.M., Thermal data on organic compounds. IX. A study of the effect of unsaturation on the heat capacities, entropies and free energies of some hydrocarbons and other compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1930, 52, 4381-4391. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Pc	Critical pressure
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tc	Critical temperature
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  Vc	Critical volume
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔfusS	Entropy of fusion
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions
  ρc	Critical density

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