Dodecane

• Formula: C₁₂H₂₆
• Molecular weight: 170.3348
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C12H26/c1-3-5-7-9-11-12-10-8-6-4-2/h3-12H2,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: SNRUBQQJIBEYMU-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 112-40-3
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• Other names: n-Dodecane; Adakane 12; Ba 51-090453; CH3(CH2)10CH3; Bihexyl; Dihexyl; Duodecane; NSC 8714
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Normal melting point

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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.

Ott and Goates, 1983
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Guieu, Faradjzadeh, et al., 1980
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Anonymous, 1968
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Mears, Stanley, et al., 1963
Mears, T.W.; Stanley, C.L.; Compere, E.L.; Howard, F.L., Synthesis, purification, and physical properties of seven twelve-carbon hyd rocarbons, J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand., Sect. A, 1963, 67, 475. [all data]

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Gollis, M.H.; Belenyessy, L.I.; Gudzinowicz, B.J.; Koch, S.D.; Smith, J.O.; Wineman, R.J., Evaluation of pure hydrocarbons as jet fuels., J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1962, 7, 311-6. [all data]

Jessup and Stanley, 1961
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Sondheimer, Amiel, et al., 1957
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Crawford and Harbourn, 1955
Crawford, W.; Harbourn, C.L.A., Anal. Chem., 1955, 27, 1449. [all data]

Landa, Romovacek, et al., 1955
Landa, S.; Romovacek, J.; Romovackova, H., Composition of Low-Temperature Brown-coal I. Paraffins, Chem. Listy, 1955, 49, 313. [all data]

Streiff, Hulme, et al., 1955
Streiff, A.J.; Hulme, A.R.; Cowie, P.A.; Krouskop, N.C.; Rossini, F.D., Purification, Purity, and Freezing Points of Sixty-four American Petroleum Institute Standard and Research Hydrocarbons, Anal. Chem., 1955, 27, 411. [all data]

Jones, Thompson, et al., 1954
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Meshcheryakov, Erzyutova, et al., 1952
Meshcheryakov, A.P.; Erzyutova, E.I.; Petrov, A.D., Synthesis of C10-11 Hydrocarbons Having Two Quaternary Carbon Atoms, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1952, 85, 111-13. [all data]

Tilicheev, Peshkov, et al., 1951
Tilicheev, M.D.; Peshkov, V.P.; Yuganova, S.A., Cryoscopic Constants and Transition Temperatures of Normal Alkanes, Zh. Obshch. Khim., 1951, 21, 1229-37. [all data]

Boord, Greenlee, et al., 1949
Boord, C.E.; Greenlee, K.W.; Perilstein, W.L.; Derfer, J.M., The Synthesis, Purification and Prop. of Hydrocarbons of Low Mol. Wt., Am. Pet. Inst. Res. Proj. 45, Eleventh Annu. Rep., Ohio State Univ., 1949. [all data]

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Anonymous, 1948
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Streiff and Rossini, 1948
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Schiessler, 1947
Schiessler, R.W., , Am. Pet. Inst. Res. Proj. 42, Twelfth Meeting, 1947. [all data]

Anonymous, 1946
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Ralston, Hoerr, et al., 1944
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Mair and Streiff, 1940
Mair, B.J.; Streiff, A.J., Separation of the aromatic hydrocarbons, and the isolation of n-dodecane, naphthalene, 1-methylnaphthalene, and 2-methylnaphthalene from the kerosene fraction of petroleum, J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. (U. S.), 1940, 24, 395-414. [all data]

Horie and Morikawa, 1938
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Seyer, 1938
Seyer, W.F., Mutual Solubilities of Hydrocarbons II. The Freezing Point Curves of Dotricontane (Dicetyl) in Dodecane, Decane, Octane, Hexane, Cyclohexane and Benzene, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1938, 60, 827-30. [all data]

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Mair, 1932
Mair, B.J., The Synthesis, Purification, and Certain Physical Constants of the Normal Hydrocarbons from Pentane to Dodecane, of n-Amyl Bromide and of n-Nonyl Bromide, J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. (U. S.), 1932, 9, 457. [all data]

Shepard, Henne, et al., 1931
Shepard, A.F.; Henne, A.L.; Midgley, T., Physical Prop. of the Normal Paraffin Hydrocarbons Pentane to Dodecane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1931, 53, 1948. [all data]

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Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point

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