1,3,5-Trioxane

• Formula: C₃H₆O₃
• Molecular weight: 90.0779
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C3H6O3/c1-4-2-6-3-5-1/h1-3H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: BGJSXRVXTHVRSN-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 110-88-3
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: s-Trioxane; Formaldehyde, trimer; Triformol; Trioxan; Trioxane; Trioxymethylene; Metaformaldehyde; sym-Trioxane; Trioxin; 1,3,5-Trioxan; s-Trioxan; s-Trixane; Aldeform; Formagene; Marvosan; Paraformaldehyde; Triossimetilene; Trioxymethyleen; Trioxymethylen; 1,3,5-Trioxacyclohexane; NSC 26347
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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

Constant pressure heat capacity of gas

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

Constant pressure heat capacity of solid

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Gas Chromatography

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Kovats' RI, non-polar column, isothermal

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References

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Mansson, Morawetz, et al., 1969
Mansson, M.; Morawetz, E.; Nakase, Y.; Sunner, S., The enthalpies of formation of trioxane and tetroxane, Acta Chem. Scand., 1969, 23, 56-60. [all data]

Walker and Carlisle, 1943
Walker, J.F.; Carlisle, P.J., Trioxane, Chem. Eng. News, 1943, 21, 1250-1251. [all data]

Delepine and Badoche, 1942
Delepine, M.; Badoche, M., Thermochimie de l'aldehyde formique, de l'hexamethylene-tetramine et de ses derive, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1942, 214, 777-780. [all data]

Clegg G.A., 1968
Clegg G.A., Thermodynamics of polymerization of heterocyclic compounds. I. The heat capacity, entropy, and enthalpy of trioxane, Polymer, 1968, 9, 75-79. [all data]

Dorofeeva O.V., 1992
Dorofeeva O.V., Ideal gas thermodynamic properties of oxygen heterocyclic compounds. Part 2. Six-membered, seven-membered and eight-membered rings, Thermochim. Acta, 1992, 200, 121-150. [all data]

Melia T.P., 1967
Melia T.P., Thermodynamics of addition polymerization. I. The system trioxane-polyoxymethylene, J. Appl. Chem., 1967, 17, 15-17. [all data]

Hayes, 1971
Hayes, C.W., Bomb calorimetric studies on normal alkan-1-ols, steroregular polymethylmethacrylates, α-olefinic polymers, trioxane and oxygenated polymers, Diss. Abs., 1971, 31, 5903-5904. [all data]

van Bommel, van Miltenburg, et al., 1988
van Bommel, M.J.; van Miltenburg, J.C.; Schuijff, A., Heat-capacity measurements and thermodynamic functions of 1,3,5-triazine and 1,3,5-trioxane, J. Chem. Thermodynam., 1988, 20, 397-403. [all data]

Clegg, Melia, et al., 1968
Clegg, G.A.; Melia, T.P.; Tyson, A., Thermodynamics of polymerization of heterocyclic compounds. I. The heat capacity, entropy and enthalpy of trioxan, Polymer, 1968, 9(2), 75-79. [all data]

Bogoslovsky, Anvaer, et al., 1978
Bogoslovsky, Yu.N.; Anvaer, B.I.; Vigdergauz, M.S., Chromatographic constants in gas chromatography (in Russian), Standards Publ. House, Moscow, 1978, 192. [all data]

Kurdina, Markovich, et al., 1969
Kurdina, Z.G.; Markovich, V.E.; Sakharov, V.M., Gas chromatography of cyclic O-containing compounds in Gas chromatography, Issue # 10, NIITEKhim, Moscow, 1969, 128-133. [all data]

Peng, Yang, et al., 1991
Peng, C.T.; Yang, Z.C.; Ding, S.F., Prediction of rentention idexes. II. Structure-retention index relationship on polar columns, J. Chromatogr., 1991, 586, 1, 85-112, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9673(91)80028-F . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,gas	Constant pressure heat capacity of gas
  Cp,solid	Constant pressure heat capacity of solid
  S°gas	Entropy of gas at standard conditions
  S°solid,1 bar	Entropy of solid at standard conditions (1 bar)
  ΔcH°solid	Enthalpy of combustion of solid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔfH°solid	Enthalpy of formation of solid at standard conditions

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