Cyclobutane, octafluoro-

• Formula: C₄F₈
• Molecular weight: 200.0300
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4F8/c5-1(6)2(7,8)4(11,12)3(1,9)10 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: BCCOBQSFUDVTJQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 115-25-3
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Cyclooctafluorobutane; Freon C 318; Freon 318; FC-C 318; Octafluorocyclobutane; Perfluorocyclobutane; Propellant C 318; R C318; Halocarbon C-138; UN 1976; Cyclobutane, 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4-octafluoro-
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  • 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
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

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 phase transition

Entropy of phase transition

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron
B - John E. Bartmess

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Electron affinity determinations

Appearance energy determinations

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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

Spectrum

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Additional Data

References

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PCR Inc., 1990
PCR Inc., Research Chemicals Catalog 1990-1991, PCR Inc., Gainesville, FL, 1990, 1. [all data]

Krauss and Stephan, 1989
Krauss, R.; Stephan, K., Thermal Conductivity of Refrigerants in a Wide Range of Temperature and Pressure, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1989, 18, 43. [all data]

Park, Benning, et al., 1947
Park, J.D.; Benning, A.F.; Downing, F.B.; Laucius, J.F.; McHarness, R.C., Synthesis of Tetrafluoroethylene. Pyrolysis of Monochlorodifluoromethane, Ind. Eng. Chem., 1947, 39, 343-8. [all data]

Furukawa, McCoskey, et al., 1954
Furukawa, G.T.; McCoskey, R.E.; Reilly, M.L., Heat capacity, heats of transitions, fusion, and vaporization, and vapor pressure of octafluorocyclobutane, J. RES. NATL. BUR. STAN., 1954, 52, 1, 11, https://doi.org/10.6028/jres.052.003 . [all data]

Mousa, Kay, et al., 1972
Mousa, A.H.N.; Kay, W.B.; Kreglewski, A., The critical constants of binary mixtures of certain perfluoro-compounds with alkanes, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1972, 4, 301-11. [all data]

Douslin, Moore, et al., 1959
Douslin, D.R.; Moore, R.T.; Waddington, G., The pressure-volume-temperature properties of perfluorocyclobutane: equations of state, viral coefficients and intermolecular potential energy functions, J. Phys. Chem., 1959, 63, 1959. [all data]

Furukawa, McCoskey, et al., 1954, 2
Furukawa, G.T.; McCoskey, R.E.; Reilly, M.L., Heat capacity, heats of transitions, fusion and vaporization, and vapor pressure of octafluorocyclobutane, J. Res., 1954, NBS 52, 11-16. [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]

Kletskii and Petrik, 1967
Kletskii, A.V.; Petrik, L.E., Zh. Fiz. Khim., 1967, 41, 5, 1183. [all data]

Martin, 1962
Martin, J.J., Thermodynamic Properties of Perfluorocyclobutane., J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1962, 7, 1, 68-72, https://doi.org/10.1021/je60012a020 . [all data]

Boublik, Fried, et al., 1984
Boublik, T.; Fried, V.; Hala, E., The Vapour Pressures of Pure Substances: Selected Values of the Temperature Dependence of the Vapour Pressures of Some Pure Substances in the Normal and Low Pressure Region, 2nd ed., Elsevier, New York, 1984, 972. [all data]

Kletskii and Petric, 1967
Kletskii, A.B.; Petric, L.E., Dependence of Vapor Pressure of Perfluorocyclobutane, Zh. Fiz. Khim., 1967, 41, 1183-1184. [all data]

Miller, Freidman, et al., 2004
Miller, T.M.; Freidman, J.F.; Viggiano, A.A., Electron Attachment and detachment and the Electron Affinity of cyclo-C4F8, J. Chem. Phys., 2004, 120, 15, 7024-7028, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1683082 . [all data]

Hiraoka, Mizuno, et al., 2002
Hiraoka, K.; Mizuno, T.; Eguchi, D.; Takao, K.; Iino, T.; Yamabe, S., Gas-phase ion/molecule reactions in octafluorocyclobutane, J. Chem. Phys., 2002, 116, 17, 7574-7582, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1400787 . [all data]

Bopp, Roscioli, et al., 2007
Bopp, J.C.; Roscioli, J.R.; Johnson, M.A.; Miller, T.M.; Viggiano, A.A.; Villano, S.M.; Wren, S.W.; Lineberger, Spectroscopic characterization of the isolated SF6- and C4F8- anions: Observation of very long harmonic progressions in symmetric deformation modes upon photodetachment, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2007, 111, 7, 1214-1221, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp0665372 . [all data]

Miller, Morris, et al., 1994
Miller, T.M.; Morris, R.A.; Miller, A.E.S.; Viggiano, A.A.; Paulson, J.F., Observation of Thermal Electron Detachment from Cyclo-C4F8- in FALP Experiments, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Proc., 1994, 135, 2-3, 195, https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-1176(94)03999-2 . [all data]

Lifshitz, Tiernan, et al., 1973
Lifshitz, C.; Tiernan, T.O.; Hughes, B.M., Electron affinities from endothermic negative-ion charge transfer reactions. IV. SF₆, selected fluorocarbons, and other polyatomic molecules, J. Chem. Phys., 1973, 59, 3182. [all data]

Bibby and Carter, 1963
Bibby, M.M.; Carter, G., Ionization and dissociation in some fluorocarbon gases, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans., 1963, 59, 2455. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  EA	Electron affinity
  Pc	Critical pressure
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tc	Critical temperature
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  Vc	Critical volume
  ΔHtrs	Enthalpy of phase transition
  ΔStrs	Entropy of phase transition
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapS	Entropy of vaporization

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