n-Butyl ether

• Formula: C₈H₁₈O
• Molecular weight: 130.2279
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C8H18O/c1-3-5-7-9-8-6-4-2/h3-8H2,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: DURPTKYDGMDSBL-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 142-96-1
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Butane, 1,1'-oxybis-; Butyl ether; n-Dibutyl ether; Di-n-butyl ether; Dibutyl ether; Dibutyl oxide; 1,1'-Oxybis(butane); (n-C4H9)2O; 1-Butoxybutane; Butyl oxide; Ether butylique; UN 1149; NSC 8459
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
HL - Edward P. Hunter and Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
MM - Michael M. Meot-Ner (Mautner)
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

Gas basicity at 298K

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

Ion clustering data

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Clustering reactions

CH₆N⁺ +  = (CH₆N⁺ • )

By formula: CH₆N⁺ + C₈H₁₈O = (CH₆N⁺ • C₈H₁₈O)

Bond type: Hydrogen bonds of the type NH+-O between organics

References

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Colomina, Pell, et al., 1965
Colomina, M.; Pell, A.S.; Skinner, H.A.; Coleman, D.J., Heats of combustion of four dialkylethers, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1965, 61, 2641. [all data]

Murrin and Goldhagen, 1957
Murrin, J.W.; Goldhagen, S., Determination of the C-O bond energy from the heats of combustion of four aliphatic ethers, NAVORD Report No. 5491, U.S. Naval Powder Factory Res. & Dev. Dept., 1957, 1-14. [all data]

Hunter and Lias, 1998
Hunter, E.P.; Lias, S.G., Evaluated Gas Phase Basicities and Proton Affinities of Molecules: An Update, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1998, 27, 3, 413-656, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.556018 . [all data]

Decouzon, Gal, et al., 1996
Decouzon, M.; Gal, J.E.; Herreros, M.; Marai, P.C.; Murrell, J.; Todd, J.F.J., On the Use of the Kinetic Method for the Determination of Proton Affinities by Fourier-Transfrom Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry, Rapid. Comm. Mass Spectrom., 1996, 10, 242. [all data]

Williams and Hamill, 1968
Williams, J.M.; Hamill, W.H., Ionization potentials of molecules and free radicals and appearance potentials by electron impact in the mass spectrometer, J. Chem. Phys., 1968, 49, 4467. [all data]

Aue and Bowers, 1979
Aue, D.H.; Bowers, M.T., Chapter 9. Stabilities of positive ions from equilibrium gas phase basicity measurements in Ions Chemistry,, ed. M.T. Bowers, 1979. [all data]

Benoit and Harrison, 1977
Benoit, F.M.; Harrison, A.G., Predictive value of proton affinity. Ionization energy correlations involving oxygenated molecules, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1977, 99, 3980. [all data]

Klessinger, Asmus, et al., 1975
Klessinger, M.; Asmus, P.; Kraatz, U., Photoelektronenspektren organischer verbindungen-VII, Tetrahedron, 1975, 31, 517. [all data]

Meot-Ner, 1984
Meot-Ner, (Mautner)M., The Ionic Hydrogen Bond and Ion Solvation. 1. -NH+ O-, -NH+ N- and -OH+ O- Bonds. Correlations with Proton Affinity. Deviations Due to Structural Effects, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1984, 106, 5, 1257, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00317a015 . [all data]

Meot-Ner (Mautner), 1983
Meot-Ner (Mautner), M., The Ionic Hydrogen Bond. 3. Multiple and -CH+...O- Bonds. Complexes of Ammonium Ions with Polyethers and Crown Ethers, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1983, 105, 15, 4912, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00353a012 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrS°	Entropy of reaction at standard conditions

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