Dimethyl ether

• Formula: C₂H₆O
• Molecular weight: 46.0684
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2H6O/c1-3-2/h1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: LCGLNKUTAGEVQW-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 115-10-6
• Chemical structure:
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• Isotopologues:
  • (CD3)2O
• Other names: Methane, oxybis-; Methyl ether; Methoxymethane; Wood ether; Oxybismethane; (CH3)2O; Ether, dimethyl; Ether, methyl; UN 1033; Dimethyl oxide; Dymel A; Dymel; Demeon D; DME; Methane, 1,1'-oxybis-
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  • IR Spectrum
  • Mass spectrum (electron ionization)
  • References
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Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Enthalpy of vaporization

Entropy of vaporization

Antoine Equation Parameters

log₁₀(P) = A − (B / (T + C))
    P = vapor pressure (bar)
    T = temperature (K)

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Enthalpy of fusion

Entropy of fusion

IR Spectrum

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• GAS; DOW KBr FOREPRISM-GRATING; DIGITIZED BY NIST FROM HARD COPY (FROM TWO SEGMENTS)
  2, 4 cm^-1 resolution

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

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Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Spectrum

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Additional Data

References

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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]

Grosse, 1937
Grosse, A.V., Refractive Indices at Low Temperatures, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1937, 59, 2739-41. [all data]

Maass and Boomer, 1922
Maass, O.; Boomer, E.H., Vapor Densities at Low Pressures and Over and Extended Temperature Range. I. The Properties of Ethylene Oxide Compared to Oxygen Compounds of Similar Molecular Weight, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1922, 44, 8, 1709-1728, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01429a013 . [all data]

Thiele and Schulte, 1920
Thiele, A.; Schulte, E., Binary equilibrium systems with solid carbon dioxide, Z. Phys. Chem., Stoechiom. Verwandtschaftsl., 1920, 96, 312-42. [all data]

Wilhoit, Chao, et al., 1985
Wilhoit, R.C.; Chao, J.; Hall, K.R., Thermodynamic Properties of Key Organic Compounds in the Carbon Range C1 to C4. Part 1. Properties of Condensed Phases, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1985, 14, 1. [all data]

Kennedy, Sagenkahn, et al., 1941
Kennedy, R.M.; Sagenkahn, M.; Aston, J.G., The Heat Capacity and Entropy, Heats of Fusion and Vaporization and the Vapor Pressure of Dimethyl Ether. The Density of Gaseous Dimethyl Ether, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1941, 63, 2267-72. [all data]

Zawisza and Glowka, 1970
Zawisza, A.C.; Glowka, S., Liquid-vapour equilibria and thermodynamic functions of dimethyl ether - sulphur dioxide system up to 300c and 77.81 atmospheres, Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci., Ser. Sci. Chim., 1970, 18, 549-54. [all data]

Edwards and Maass, 1935
Edwards, J.; Maass, O., Density and Adsorption Studies in the Region of the Critical Temperature: System Dimethyl-ether-alumina., Can. J. Res., Sect. A, 1935, 12, 357-71. [all data]

Tapp, Steacie, et al., 1933
Tapp, J.S.; Steacie, E.W.R.; Maass, O., Density of a Vapor in Equilibrium with a Liquid Near the Critical Temperature., Can. J. Res., 1933, 9, 217-39. [all data]

Cardoso and Coppola, 1923
Cardoso, E.; Coppola, A.A., Experimental researches on some thermal properties of gas I the densities of coexisting phases of methyl ether, J. Chim. Phys. Phys.-Chim. Biol., 1923, 20, 337-46. [all data]

Ambrose, Ellender, et al., 1976
Ambrose, D.; Ellender, J.H.; Sprake, C.H.S.; Townsend, R., Thermodynamic properties of organic oxygen compounds XLIII. Vapour pressures of some ethers, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 1976, 8, 2, 165-178, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9614(76)90090-2 . [all data]

Kennedy, Sagenkahn, et al., 1941, 2
Kennedy, R.M.; Sagenkahn, M.; Aston, J.G., The heat capacity and entropy, heats of fusion and vaporization, and the vapor pressure of dimethyl ether. The density of gaseous dimethyl ether, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1941, 63, 2267-2272. [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]

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]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Pc	Critical pressure
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tc	Critical temperature
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  Vc	Critical volume
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔfusS	Entropy of fusion
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions
  ΔvapS	Entropy of vaporization
  ρc	Critical density

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