Vinyl radical

• Formula: C₂H₃
• Molecular weight: 27.0452
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2H3/c1-2/h1H,2H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: ORGHESHFQPYLAO-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 2669-89-8
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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:
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
B - John E. Bartmess

View reactions leading to C₂H₃⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Electron affinity determinations

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Data compiled by: Robert C. Dunbar

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Clustering reactions

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Cr⁺ + C₂H₃ = (Cr⁺ • C₂H₃)

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]

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]

Ervin, Gronert, et al., 1990
Ervin, K.M.; Gronert, S.; Barlow, S.E.; Gilles, M.K.; Harrison, A.G.; Bierbaum, V.M.; DePuy, C.H.; Lin, W.C., Bonds Strengths of Ethylene and Acetylene, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1990, 112, 15, 5750, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00171a013 . [all data]

Lindinger, Albritton, et al., 1975
Lindinger, W.; Albritton, A.L.; Fehsenfeld, F.C.; Ferguson, E.E., Reactions of O- with N₂, N₂O, SO₂, NH₃, CH₄, C₂H₄, and C₂H₂- with O₂ from 300K to relative kinetic energies of 2 eV, J. Chem. Phys., 1975, 63, 3238. [all data]

Blush and Chen, 1992
Blush, J.A.; Chen, P., Photoelectron spectrum of the vinyl radical. Downward revision of C₂H₃ ionization potential, J. Phys. Chem., 1992, 96, 4138. [all data]

Berkowitz, Mayhew, et al., 1988
Berkowitz, J.; Mayhew, C.A.; Ruscic, B., A photoionization study of the vinyl radical, J. Chem. Phys., 1988, 88, 7396. [all data]

Reinke, Kraessig, et al., 1973
Reinke, D.; Kraessig, R.; Baumgartel, H., Photoreactions of small organic molecules, Z. Naturforsch. A:, 1973, 28, 1021. [all data]

Lossing, 1971
Lossing, F.P., Free radicals by mass spectrometry. XLIII. Ionization potentials and ionic heats of formation for vinyl, allyl, and benzyl radicals, Can. J. Chem., 1971, 49, 357. [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]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  EA	Electron affinity
  ΔfH(+) ion,0K	Enthalpy of formation of positive ion at 0K
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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