Bicyclo[1.1.0]butane

• Formula: C₄H₆
• Molecular weight: 54.0904
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H6/c1-3-2-4(1)3/h3-4H,1-2H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: LASLVGACQUUOEB-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 157-33-5
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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

Phase change data

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Data compiled by: Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

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Individual Reactions

C₄H₅^- +  =

By formula: C₄H₅^- + H⁺ = C₄H₆

=  + 

By formula: C₄H₆I₂ = C₄H₆ + I₂

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
L - Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard

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Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

De-protonation reactions

C₄H₅^- +  =

By formula: C₄H₅^- + H⁺ = C₄H₆

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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References

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Wiberg and Fenoglio, 1968
Wiberg, K.B.; Fenoglio, R.A., Heats of formation of C₄H₆ hydrocarbons, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1968, 90, 3395-3397. [all data]

Buckingham and Donaghy, 1982
Buckingham, J.; Donaghy, S.M., Dictionary of Organic Compounds: Fifth Edition, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1982, 1. [all data]

Kass and Chou, 1988
Kass, S.R.; Chou, P.K., The Bicyclobutyl Anion: An Alkyl Carbanion, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1988, 110, 23, 7899, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00231a063 . [all data]

Sunner and Wulff, 1973
Sunner, S.; Wulff, C.A., Ring strain in diiodocyclobutane, Acta Chem. Scand., 1973, 27, 315-317. [all data]

Bombach, Dannacher, et al., 1983
Bombach, R.; Dannacher, J.; Stadelmann, J.-P.; Neier, R., Fundamental aspects of ionic dissociations: The fragmentation pathways of excited bicyclobutane cations, Helv. Chim. Acta, 1983, 66, 701. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  IE (evaluated)	Recommended ionization energy
  Tboil	Boiling point
  ΔcH°gas	Enthalpy of combustion of gas at standard conditions
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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