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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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

Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid

IR Spectrum

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Gas Phase Spectrum

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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]

Skuratov, Strepikheev, et al., 1957
Skuratov, S.M.; Strepikheev, A.A.; Kozina, M.P., About the reaction activity of five and six-membered heterocyclic compounds, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1957, 117, 452-454. [all data]

Cox and Pilcher, 1970
Cox, J.D.; Pilcher, G., Thermochemistry of Organic and Organometallic Compounds, Academic Press, New York, 1970, 1-636. [all data]

Cobos, Casanova, et al., 1987
Cobos, J.C.; Casanova, C.; Roux-Desgranges, G.; Grolier, J.-P.E., Excess properties of mixtures of some n-alkoxyethanols with organic solvents. II. VEm and CEp,m with di-n-butylether at 298.15 K, J. Chem. Thermodynam., 1987, 19, 791-796. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,liquid	Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid
  ΔcH°liquid	Enthalpy of combustion of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°liquid	Enthalpy of formation of liquid at standard conditions

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