o-Xylylene

• Formula: C₈H₈
• Molecular weight: 104.1491
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C8H8/c1-7-5-3-4-6-8(7)2/h3-6H,1-2H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: XURVRZSODRHRNK-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 32796-95-5
• Chemical structure:
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• Species with the same structure:
  • Methyl, 1,2-phenylenebis-
• Information on this page:
  • Gas phase thermochemistry data
  • Gas phase ion energetics data
  • References
  • Notes
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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

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated by: Edward P. Hunter and Sharon G. Lias

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References

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Pollack, Raine, et al., 1981
Pollack, S.K.; Raine, B.C.; Hehre, W.J., Determination of the heats of formation of the isomeric xylylenes by ion cyclotron double-resonance spectroscopy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1981, 103, 6308-6313. [all data]

Roth and Scholz, 1981
Roth, W.R.; Scholz, B.P., Energy profile of the o-quinodimethane = benzocyclobutene equilibrium. Part 2., Chem. Ber., 1981, 114, 3741-3750. [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]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  ΔfH°gas

  Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions

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