n-Propyl radical

• Formula: C₃H₇
• Molecular weight: 43.0877
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C3H7/c1-3-2/h1,3H2,2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: OCBFFGCSTGGPSQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 2143-61-5
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Robert C. Dunbar

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Individual Reactions

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Cr⁺ + C₃H₇ = (Cr⁺ • C₃H₇)

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron
B - John E. Bartmess

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Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

Ion clustering data

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Clustering reactions

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Cr⁺ + C₃H₇ = (Cr⁺ • C₃H₇)

Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels

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Data compiled by: Marilyn E. Jacox

State:   X

Additional references: Jacox, 1994, page 383

Notes

References

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Tsang, 1996
Tsang, W., Heats of Formation of Organic Free Radicals by Kinetic Methods in Energetics of Organic Free Radicals, Martinho Simoes, J.A.; Greenberg, A.; Liebman, J.F., eds., Blackie Academic and Professional, London, 1996, 22-58. [all data]

Fisher and Armentrout, 1992
Fisher, E.R.; Armentrout, P.B., Activation of Alkanes by Cr+: Unique Reactivity of Ground-State Cr+(6S) and Thermochemistry of Neutral and Ionic Chromium-Carbon Bonds, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1992, 114, 6, 2039, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00032a017 . [all data]

DePuy, Gronert, et al., 1989
DePuy, C.H.; Gronert, S.; Barlow, S.E.; Bierbaum, V.M.; Damrauer, R., The Gas Phase Acidities of the Alkanes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1989, 111, 6, 1968, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00188a003 . [all data]

Dyke, Ellis, et al., 1985
Dyke, J.; Ellis, A.; Jonathan, N.; Morris, A., Vacuum ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy of transient species. Part 18. The cyclopropyl, isopropyl, an n-propyl radicals, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. 2, 1985, 81, 1573. [all data]

Schultz, Houle, et al., 1984
Schultz, J.C.; Houle, F.A.; Beauchamp, J.L., Photoelectron spectroscopy of 1-propyl, 1-butyl, isobutyl, neopentyl and 2-butyl radicals: Free radical precursors to high energy carbonium ion isomers, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1984, 106, 3917. [all data]

Lossing and Semeluk, 1970
Lossing, F.P.; Semeluk, G.P., Free radicals by mass spectrometry. XLII.Ionization potentials and ionic heats of formation for C₁-C₄ alkyl radicals, Can. J. Chem., 1970, 48, 955. [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]

Melton and Hamill, 1964
Melton, C.E.; Hamill, W.H., Ionization potentials of alkyl free radicals and of benzene, toluene, and triethylamine by the RPD technique, J. Chem. Phys., 1964, 41, 3464. [all data]

Elder, Giese, et al., 1962
Elder, F.A.; Giese, C.; Steiner, B.; Inghram, M., Photo-ionization of alkyl free radicals, J. Chem. Phys., 1962, 36, 3292. [all data]

Pacansky, Horne, et al., 1977
Pacansky, J.; Horne, D.E.; Gardini, G.P.; Bargon, J., Matrix isolation studies of alkyl radicals. The characteristic infrared spectra of primary alkyl radicals, J. Phys. Chem., 1977, 81, 23, 2149, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100538a003 . [all data]

Jacox, 1994
Jacox, M.E., Vibrational and electronic energy levels of polyatomic transient molecules, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1994, 464. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  EA	Electron affinity
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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