1,3,5-Trioxane

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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

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δfgas-465.76 ± 0.50kJ/molCcrMansson, Morawetz, et al., 1969ALS
Δfgas-489.5kJ/molN/AWalker and Carlisle, 1943Value computed using ΔfHsolid° value of -546.0±11.0 kj/mol from Walker and Carlisle, 1943 and ΔsubH° value of 56.5 kj/mol from Mansson, Morawetz, et al., 1969.; DRB
Δfgas-464.0kJ/molN/ADelepine and Badoche, 1942Value computed using ΔfHsolid° value of -520.5 kj/mol from Delepine and Badoche, 1942 and ΔsubH° value of 56.5 kj/mol from Mansson, Morawetz, et al., 1969.; DRB
Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
gas284.9 ± 3.4J/mol*KN/AClegg G.A., 1968GT

Constant pressure heat capacity of gas

Cp,gas (J/mol*K) Temperature (K) Reference Comment
33.5050.Dorofeeva O.V., 1992p=1 bar. Selected values are in close agreement with those calculated by [ Melia T.P., 1967].; GT
38.63100.
47.52150.
57.69200.
75.24273.15
81.9 ± 3.5298.15
82.38300.
109.75400.
134.80500.
155.90600.
173.34700.
187.80800.
199.87900.
210.021000.
218.601100.
225.891200.
232.121300.
237.451400.
242.051500.

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

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δfsolid-522.3 ± 0.4kJ/molCcrMansson, Morawetz, et al., 1969ALS
Δfsolid-546. ± 11.kJ/molCcbWalker and Carlisle, 1943ALS
Δfsolid-520.49kJ/molCcbDelepine and Badoche, 1942Author's hf298_condensed=-125.55 kcal/mol; ALS
Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δcsolid-1515.3kJ/molCcbHayes, 1971Corresponding Δfsolid = -522.71 kJ/mol (simple calculation by NIST; no Washburn corrections); ALS
Δcsolid-1515.7 ± 0.3kJ/molCcrMansson, Morawetz, et al., 1969Corresponding Δfsolid = -522.33 kJ/mol (simple calculation by NIST; no Washburn corrections); ALS
Δcsolid-1492. ± 1.kJ/molCcbWalker and Carlisle, 1943Corresponding Δfsolid = -545.6 kJ/mol (simple calculation by NIST; no Washburn corrections); ALS
Δcsolid-1518.kJ/molCcbDelepine and Badoche, 1942Author's hf298_condensed=-125.55 kcal/mol; Corresponding Δfsolid = -520.5 kJ/mol (simple calculation by NIST; no Washburn corrections); ALS
Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
solid,1 bar142.89J/mol*KN/Avan Bommel, van Miltenburg, et al., 1988DH
solid,1 bar133.0J/mol*KN/AClegg, Melia, et al., 1968DH

Constant pressure heat capacity of solid

Cp,solid (J/mol*K) Temperature (K) Reference Comment
113.08298.15van Bommel, van Miltenburg, et al., 1988T = 10 to 350 K.; DH
111.4298.15Clegg, Melia, et al., 1968T = 80 to 310 K.; DH

Phase change data

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

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Tfus335.65KN/ALe Fevre, Sundaram, et al., 1963Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 1.5 K; TRC
Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Ttriple333.44KN/AVan Bommel, van Miltenburg, et al., 1988Crystal phase 1 phase; Uncertainty assigned by TRC = 0.02 K; TRC
Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δsub55. ± 6.kJ/molAVGN/AAverage of 6 values; Individual data points

Enthalpy of vaporization

ΔvapH (kJ/mol) Temperature (K) Method Reference Comment
40.0344.AStephenson and Malanowski, 1987Based on data from 329. to 386. K. See also Serebryannaya and Byk, 1965.; AC

Enthalpy of sublimation

ΔsubH (kJ/mol) Temperature (K) Method Reference Comment
57.9223.TE,MEDe Wit, Van Miltenburg, et al., 1983Based on data from 212. to 231. K.; AC

Enthalpy of fusion

ΔfusH (kJ/mol) Temperature (K) Reference Comment
15.105333.44van Bommel, van Miltenburg, et al., 1988DH
15.1333.4Domalski and Hearing, 1996See also Acree, 1991.; AC

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Reaction thermochemistry data

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

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Individual Reactions

41,3,5-Trioxane = 31,3,5,7-Tetroxane

By formula: 4C3H6O3 = 3C4H8O4

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr12. ± 0.8kJ/molCmBogdanova, Bonetskaya, et al., 1971crystal phase

1,3,5-Trioxane = 3Formaldehyde

By formula: C3H6O3 = 3CH2O

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr194.0 ± 2.5kJ/molEqkBusfield and Merigold, 1969solid phase

3Formaldehyde = 1,3,5-Trioxane

By formula: 3CH2O = C3H6O3

Quantity Value Units Method Reference Comment
Δr-139.2 ± 2.1kJ/molEqkBusfield and Merigold, 1969gas phase

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
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

Ionization energy determinations

IE (eV) Method Reference Comment
10.3PESweigart and Turner, 1972LLK
10.59 ± 0.05EIKumakura, Sugiura, et al., 1968RDSH
~10.8PESweigart and Turner, 1972Vertical value; LLK

Appearance energy determinations

Ion AE (eV) Other Products MethodReferenceComment
CHO+13.59 ± 0.05?EIKumakura, Sugiura, et al., 1968RDSH
CH3O+11.49 ± 0.05?EIKumakura, Sugiura, et al., 1968RDSH
C2H5O2+10.79 ± 0.05CHO?EIKumakura, Sugiura, et al., 1968RDSH
C3H5O3+10.59 ± 0.05HEIKumakura, Sugiura, et al., 1968RDSH

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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

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Gas Chromatography

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Kovats' RI, non-polar column, isothermal

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Column type Active phase Temperature (C) I Reference Comment
PackedApiezon L120.650.Bogoslovsky, Anvaer, et al., 1978Celite 545
PackedApiezon L160.660.Bogoslovsky, Anvaer, et al., 1978Celite 545

Normal alkane RI, non-polar column, isothermal

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Column type Active phase Temperature (C) I Reference Comment
PackedApieson L120.658.Kurdina, Markovich, et al., 1969not specified, not specified

Normal alkane RI, polar column, custom temperature program

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Column type Active phase I Reference Comment
CapillaryDB-Wax1167.Peng, Yang, et al., 1991Program: not specified

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]

Le Fevre, Sundaram, et al., 1963
Le Fevre, R.J.W.; Sundaram, A.; Pierens, R.K., Molecular Polarisability: the Anisotropy of the Carbon-Oxygen Link, J. Chem. Soc., 1963, 1963, 479-488. [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. Thermodyn., 1988, 20, 397-403. [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]

Serebryannaya and Byk, 1965
Serebryannaya, I.I.; Byk, S.Sh., Khim. Prom., 1965, 23, 828. [all data]

De Wit, Van Miltenburg, et al., 1983
De Wit, H.G.M.; Van Miltenburg, J.C.; De Kruif, C.G., Thermodynamic properties of molecular organic crystals containing nitrogen, oxygen, and sulphur 1. Vapour pressures and enthalpies of sublimation, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 1983, 15, 7, 651-663, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9614(83)90079-4 . [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]

Acree, 1991
Acree, William E., Thermodynamic properties of organic compounds: enthalpy of fusion and melting point temperature compilation, Thermochimica Acta, 1991, 189, 1, 37-56, https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-6031(91)87098-H . [all data]

Bogdanova, Bonetskaya, et al., 1971
Bogdanova, K.A.; Bonetskaya, A.K.; Berlin, A.A.; Rakova, G.V.; Enikolopyan, N.S., Thermal effects of trioxane and tetraoxane polymerization, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1971, 197, 618-620. [all data]

Busfield and Merigold, 1969
Busfield, W.K.; Merigold, D., The gas-phase equilibrium between trioxan and formaldehyde: The standard enthalpy and entropy of the trimerisation of formaldehyde, J. Chem. Soc. A, 1969, 19, 2975-2977. [all data]

Sweigart and Turner, 1972
Sweigart, D.A.; Turner, D.W., Lone pair orbitals and their interactions studied by photoelectron spectroscopy. II. Equivalent orbitals in saturated oxygen and sulfur J. Heterocycl. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1972, 94, 5599. [all data]

Kumakura, Sugiura, et al., 1968
Kumakura, M.; Sugiura, T.; Okamura, S., Characteristics of RPD ion source of time-of-flight mass spectrometer, and measurement of the ionization potential and the appearance potentials of trioxymethylene, Mass Spectry. (Tokyo), 1968, 16, 16. [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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