Octanal

• Formula: C₈H₁₆O
• Molecular weight: 128.2120
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C8H16O/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9/h8H,2-7H2,1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: NUJGJRNETVAIRJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 124-13-0
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: n-Caprylaldehyde; n-Octaldehyde; n-Octanal; n-Octylal; Antifoam-LF; Caprylaldehyde; Caprylic aldehyde; Octaldehyde; Octanaldehyde; Octanoic aldehyde; Octylaldehyde; 1-Octanal; n-Octyl aldehyde; Aldehyde C-8; C-8 Aldehyde; NSC 1508
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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

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
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Reduced pressure boiling point

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of fusion

Enthalpy of phase transition

Entropy of phase transition

IR Spectrum

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

Gas Phase Spectrum

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Additional Data

References

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Geiseler and Ratzsch, 1965
Geiseler, V.G.; Ratzsch, M., Bildungsenthalpien stellungsisomerer n-Alkanderivate. 1. Mitteilung: Bildungsenthalpien des Octanals und der drei isomeren Octanone, Ber. Bunsen-Ges. Phys. Chem., 1965, 69, 485-488. [all data]

D'yakova and Vasil'ev, 1982
D'yakova, G.N.; Vasil'ev, I.A., Thermodynamic properties of aliphatic aldehydes, 1982, Termodin. [all data]

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]

Gaiffe and Palland, 1962
Gaiffe, A.; Palland, R., C. R. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci., 1962, 254, 3099. [all data]

Harries, 1916
Harries, C.D., Ozone and Its Action on Organic Compound, 1916. [all data]

Sabatier and Mailhe, 1914
Sabatier, P.; Mailhe, A., C. R. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci., 1914, 158, 985. [all data]

Vasil'ev and Petrov, 1984
Vasil'ev, I.A.; Petrov, V.M., Thermodynamic Properties of Oxygen-containing Organic Compounds, Handbook, Soedinenii: Khimya, Leningrad, p 240, 1984. [all data]

Gude and Teja, 1994
Gude, M.T.; Teja, A.S., The Critical Properties of Several n-Alkanals, Tetralin and NMP, Experimental Results for DIPPR 1990-91 Projects on Phase Equilibria and Pure Component Properties, 1994, 1994, DIPPR Data Series No. 2, p.174-83. [all data]

Teja and Rosenthal, 1990
Teja, A.S.; Rosenthal, D.J., The Critical Pressures and Temperatures of Twelve Substances Using A Low Residence Time Flow Apparatus, AIChE Symp. Ser., 1990, 86, 279, 133-7. [all data]

Verevkin, Krasnykh, et al., 2003
Verevkin, Sergey P.; Krasnykh, Eugen L.; Vasiltsova, Tatiana V.; Koutek, Bohumir; Doubsky, Jan; Heintz, Andreas, Vapor pressures and enthalpies of vaporization of a series of the linear aliphatic aldehydes, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2003, 206, 1-2, 331-339, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-3812(03)00035-9 . [all data]

Chickos, Hosseini, et al., 1995
Chickos, James S.; Hosseini, Sarah; Hesse, Donald G., Determination of vaporization enthalpies of simple organic molecules by correlations of changes in gas chromatographic net retention times, Thermochimica Acta, 1995, 249, 41-62, https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-6031(95)90670-3 . [all data]

D'yakova, Korichev, et al., 1981
D'yakova, G.N.; Korichev, G.L.; Korkhova, A.D.; Vasil'eva, T.F.; Vasil'ev, I.A., Zh. Prikl. Khim. (Leningrad), 1981, 54, 1644. [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]

D'yakova and Vasil'ev, 1980
D'yakova, G.N.; Vasil'ev, I.A., Study of the thermodynamic properties of octanal and decanal, B.S.R. Inst. Neftekhim. Protsessov (Leningrad), 1980, (1), 51. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Pc	Critical pressure
  S°liquid	Entropy of liquid at standard conditions
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tc	Critical temperature
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔHtrs	Enthalpy of phase transition
  ΔStrs	Entropy of phase transition
  ΔcH°liquid	Enthalpy of combustion of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions
  ρc	Critical density

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