Furan

• Formula: C₄H₄O
• Molecular weight: 68.0740
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H4O/c1-2-4-5-3-1/h1-4H Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: YLQBMQCUIZJEEH-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 110-00-9
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• Other names: Divinylene oxide; Furfuran; Oxacyclopentadiene; Oxole; Tetrole; Furane; Furfurane; NCI-C56202; Rcra waste number U124; UN 2389; 1,4-Epoxy-1,3-butadiene
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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
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References

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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]

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]

Anonymous, 1967
Anonymous, P., , 1967. [all data]

Timmermans and Hennaut-Roland, 1959
Timmermans, J.; Hennaut-Roland, M., Work of the International Bureau of Physico-Chemical Properties physical constants of twenty organic compounds, J. Chim. Phys. Phys.-Chim. Biol., 1959, 56, 984-1023. [all data]

Bremner and Keeys, 1955
Bremner, J.G.M.; Keeys, R.K.F., The Hydrogenation of Furfuraldehyde to Furfuryl Alcohol and Sylvan (2-methylfuran), J. Chem. Soc., 1955, 1955, 1068. [all data]

Holland and Smyth, 1955
Holland, R.S.; Smyth, C.P., Microwave Adsorption and Molecular Structure in Liquids X. The Relaxation Times of Nine Heterocyclic Molecules, J. Phys. Chem., 1955, 59, 1088. [all data]

Bremner and Keeys, 1947
Bremner, J.G.M.; Keeys, R.K.F., The hydrogenation of furfuraldehyde to furfuryl alcohol and sylvan (2- methylfuran), J. Chem. Soc., 1947, 1947, 1068. [all data]

Boord, Greenlee, et al., 1946
Boord, C.E.; Greenlee, K.W.; Perilstein, W.L., The Synthesis, Purification and Prop. of Hydrocarbons of Low Mol. Weight, Am. Pet. Inst. Res. Proj. 45, Eighth Annu. Rep., Ohio State Univ., June 30, 1946. [all data]

Robles, 1939
Robles, H. deV., The Preparation and Dipole Moments of Heterocyclic Five-Membered Rings with One Heterocyclic Atom, Recl. Trav. Chim. Pays-Bas, 1939, 58, 111. [all data]

Dolliver, Gresham, et al., 1938
Dolliver, M.A.; Gresham, T.L.; Kistiakowsky, G.B.; Smith, E.A.; Vaughan, W.E., Heats of Organic Reactions VI. Heats of Hydrogenation of Some Oxygen- Containing Compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1938, 60, 440. [all data]

Mathews and Fehlandt, 1931
Mathews, J.H.; Fehlandt, P.R., The Heats of Vaporization of Some Organic Compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1931, 53, 3212. [all data]

Hartley and Dobbie, 1898
Hartley, W.N.; Dobbie, J.J., The ultraviolet absorption spectra of some closed chain carbon compounds, J. Chem. Soc., 1898, 73, 598. [all data]

Atterberg, 1880
Atterberg, A., Products of Dry Distillation of Spruce Wood, Chem. Ber., 1880, 13, 879. [all data]

Notes

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