Di-tert-butyl peroxide

• Formula: C₈H₁₈O₂
• Molecular weight: 146.2273
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C8H18O2/c1-7(2,3)9-10-8(4,5)6/h1-6H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: LSXWFXONGKSEMY-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 110-05-4
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Peroxide, bis(1,1-dimethylethyl); tert-Butyl peroxide; Bis(tert-butyl) peroxide; Cadox TBP; DTBP; Trigonox B; (tert-C4H9O)2; Cadox; Di-tert-butyl peroxyde; Di-tert-butylperoxid; Perossido di butile terziario; Peroxyde de butyle tertiaire; t-Butyl peroxide; Bis(1,1-dimethylethyl) peroxide; Di-t-butyl peroxide; Di-tertiary-butyl peroxide; t-butyl peroxide bis(1,1-di-methylethyl)peroxide; Peroxide, tert-butyl-; Interox DTB; Kayabutyl D; NSC 673; Perbutyl D; Peroxide, bis-tert-butyl-
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
DRB - Donald R. Burgess, Jr.
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
GT - Glushko Thermocenter, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Constant pressure heat capacity of gas

Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
DRB - Donald R. Burgess, Jr.

Enthalpy of vaporization

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
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

IR Spectrum

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Data compiled by: Coblentz Society, Inc.

• SOLUTION (10% CCl4 FOR 2.6-7.6, 10% CS2 FOR 7.6-25 MICRON); DOW KBr FOREPRISM-GRATING; DIGITIZED BY COBLENTZ SOCIETY (BATCH I) FROM HARD COPY; 2 cm^-1 resolution

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

• gas; HP-GC/MS/IRD

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Spectrum

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References

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Diogo, Minas da Piedade, et al., 1995
Diogo, H.P.; Minas da Piedade, M.E.; Simoes, J.A.M.; Nagano, Y., Standard enthalpy of formation and enthalpy of vaporization of di-1,1-dimethylethyl perioxide. Re-evaluation of the standard enthalpy of formation of the di-1,1-dimethylethoxy radical, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1995, 27, 597-604. [all data]

Baker, Littlefair, et al., 1965
Baker, G.; Littlefair, J.H.; Shaw, R.; Thynne, J.C.J., 1286. The heats of formation of dimethyl, diethyl, and di-t-butyl peroxide, J. Chem. Soc., 1965, 6970-6972. [all data]

Islam, 1980
Islam, T.S.A., Heats of combustion of di-tert-butyl and di-tert-amyl peroxides and their RO-OR bond dissociation energies, Dacca Univ. Stud., Part B, 1980, 28, 1-4. [all data]

Diogo H.P., 1995
Diogo H.P., Standard enthalpy of formation and enthalpy of vaporization of di-1,1-dimethyl peroxide. Reevaluation of the standard enthalpy of formation of the di-1,1-dimethylethoxy radical, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1995, 27, 597-604. [all data]

Vaughan, 1951
Vaughan, W.E., General discussion (communicated), Discuss. Faraday Soc., 1951, 10, 330. [all data]

Raley, Rust, et al., 1948
Raley, J.H.; Rust, F.F.; Vaughan, W.E., Decompositions of Di-t-alkyl peroxides. I. Kinetics, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1948, 70, 88-94. [all data]

Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., 1990
Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals, Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Milwaukee WI, 1990, 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]

Indritz, Stone, et al., 1978
Indritz, Doren; Stone, Jack; Williams, Frederick, Vapor pressure of di-tert-butyl peroxide, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1978, 23, 1, 6-7, https://doi.org/10.1021/je60076a002 . [all data]

Egerton, Emte, et al., 1951
Egerton, A.C.; Emte, W.; Minkoff, G.J., Some properties of organic peroxides, Faraday Discuss. Chem. Soc., 1951, 10, 278. [all data]

Coughlin, Brown, et al., 1979
Coughlin, D.J.; Brown, R.S.; Salomon, R.G., The prostaglandin endoperoxide nucleus and related bicyclic peroxides. Synthetic and spectroscopic studies, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1979, 101, 1533. [all data]

Batich and Adam, 1974
Batich, C.; Adam, W., The photoelectron spectra of alkylperoxides, Tetrahedron Lett., 1974, 1467. [all data]

Holmes, Lossing, et al., 1991
Holmes, J.L.; Lossing, F.P.; Mayer, P.M., Heats of formation of oxygen-containing organic free radicals from appearance energy measurements, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1991, 113, 9723. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Cp,gas	Constant pressure heat capacity of gas
  Tboil	Boiling point
  ΔcH°liquid	Enthalpy of combustion of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔfH°liquid	Enthalpy of formation of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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