D-Alanine

• Formula: C₃H₇NO₂
• Molecular weight: 89.0932
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C3H7NO2/c1-2(4)3(5)6/h2H,4H2,1H3,(H,5,6)/t2-/m0/s1 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: QNAYBMKLOCPYGJ-REOHCLBHSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 338-69-2
• Chemical structure:
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• Stereoisomers:
  • dl-Alanine
  • Alanine
  • 2-aminopropanoic acid
• Other names: D-α-Alanine; D-(-)-Alanine; Alanine, D-; Ba 2776; D(-)-α-Alanine
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  • Condensed phase thermochemistry data
  • Phase change data
  • References
  • Notes
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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Constant pressure heat capacity of solid

Phase change data

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Data compiled by: William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

Enthalpy of sublimation

References

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Contineanu and Marchidan, 1984
Contineanu, I.; Marchidan, D.I., The enthalpies of combustion and formation of D-alanine, L-alanine, DL-alanine, and β-alanine, Rev. Roum. Chim., 1984, 29, 43-48. [all data]

Huffman, Ellis, et al., 1936
Huffman, H.M.; Ellis, E.L.; Fox, S.W., Thermal data. VI. The heats of combustion and free energies of seven organic compounds containing nitrogen, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1936, 58, 1728-1733. [all data]

Cox and Pilcher, 1970
Cox, J.D.; Pilcher, G., Thermochemistry of Organic and Organometallic Compounds, Academic Press, New York, 1970, 1-636. [all data]

Emery and Benedict, 1911
Emery, A.G.; Benedict, F.G., The heat of combustion of compounds of physiological importance, Am. J. Physiol., 1911, 28, 301-307. [all data]

Wrede, 1911
Wrede, F., Uber die Bestimmung von Berbrennungswarmen mittels der kalorimetrischen Bombe unter Benutzung des Platinwiderstandsthermometers, Z. Phys. Chem. (Leipzig), 1911, 81-94. [all data]

Huffman and Borsook, 1932
Huffman, H.M.; Borsook, H., Thermal data. I. The heat capacities, entropies and free energies of seven organic compounds containing nitrogen, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1932, 54, 4297-4301. [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]

Svec and Clyde, 1965
Svec, H.J.; Clyde, D.D., Vapor Pressures of Some α-Amino Acids., J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1965, 10, 2, 151-152, https://doi.org/10.1021/je60025a024 . [all data]

Cox and Pilcher, 1970, 2
Cox, J.D.; Pilcher, G., Thermochemistry of Organic and Organometallic Compounds, Academic Press Inc., London, 1970, 643. [all data]

Clyde and Svec, 1964
Clyde, D.D.; Svec, H., , U. S. Atomic Energy Comm. IS-790, 1964, 1. [all data]

Chiarelli and Gross, 1989
Chiarelli, M. Paul.; Gross, Michael L., Amino acid and tripeptide mixture analysis by laser desorption Fourier-transform mass spectrometry, Anal. Chem., 1989, 61, 17, 1895-1900, https://doi.org/10.1021/ac00192a023 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,solid	Constant pressure heat capacity of solid
  S°solid,1 bar	Entropy of solid at standard conditions (1 bar)
  ΔcH°solid	Enthalpy of combustion of solid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°solid	Enthalpy of formation of solid at standard conditions
  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation

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