Methyl peroxide

• Formula: CH₄O₂
• Molecular weight: 48.0413
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/CH4O2/c1-3-2/h2H,1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: MEUKEBNAABNAEX-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 3031-73-0
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
GT - Glushko Thermocenter, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Constant pressure heat capacity of gas

Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

Enthalpy of vaporization

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: John E. Bartmess

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Individual Reactions

CH₃O₂^- +  =

By formula: CH₃O₂^- + H⁺ = CH₄O₂

Gas phase ion energetics data

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De-protonation reactions

CH₃O₂^- +  =

By formula: CH₃O₂^- + H⁺ = CH₄O₂

References

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Khursan and Martem'yanov, 1991
Khursan, S.L.; Martem'yanov, V.S., Thermochemistry of the recombination of peroxyl radicals, Russ. J. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.), 1991, 65, 321-325. [all data]

Dorofeeva O.V., 1997
Dorofeeva O.V., Unpublished results. Thermocenter of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 1997. [all data]

Blat, Gerber, et al., 1939
Blat, E.J.; Gerber, M.J.; Neumann, M.B., The influence of organic peroxides on the cool flame of butane, Acta Physicochim. U.R.S.S., 1939, 10, 273-296. [all data]

Stephenson and Malanowski, 1987
Stephenson, Richard M.; Malanowski, Stanislaw, Handbook of the Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds, 1987, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3173-2 . [all data]

Egerton, Emte, et al., 1951
Egerton, A.C.; Emte, W.; Minkoff, G.J., Some properties of organic peroxides, Faraday Discuss. Chem. Soc., 1951, 10, 278. [all data]

Blanksby, Ramond, et al., 2001
Blanksby, S.J.; Ramond, T.M.; Davico, G.E.; Nimlos, M.R.; Kato, S.; Bierbaum, V.M.; Lineberger, W.C.; Ellison, Negative-ion photoelectron spectroscopy, gas-phase acidity, and thermochemistry of the peroxyl radicals CH3OO and CH3CH2OO, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2001, 123, 39, 9585-9596, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja010942j . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,gas	Constant pressure heat capacity of gas
  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
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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