Acetonitrile, trifluoro-

• Formula: C₂F₃N
• Molecular weight: 95.0233
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2F3N/c3-2(4,5)1-6 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: SFFUEHODRAXXIA-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 353-85-5
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Cyanotrifluoromethane; Trifluoroacetonitrile; CF3CN
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Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Enthalpy of vaporization

Entropy of vaporization

Antoine Equation Parameters

log₁₀(P) = A − (B / (T + C))
    P = vapor pressure (bar)
    T = temperature (K)

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Enthalpy of fusion

Entropy of fusion

Gas Chromatography

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Data compiled by: NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center, William E. Wallace, director

Normal alkane RI, non-polar column, temperature ramp

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References

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Farchan Laboratories, 1990
Farchan Laboratories, Research Chemicals Catalog, Farchan Laboratories, Gainesville, FL, 1990, 91. [all data]

PCR Inc., 1990
PCR Inc., Research Chemicals Catalog 1990-1991, PCR Inc., Gainesville, FL, 1990, 1. [all data]

Pace and Bobka, 1961
Pace, E.L.; Bobka, R.J., Thermodyn. properties of trifluoroacetonitrile from 12 K to its boiling point, J. Chem. Phys., 1961, 35, 454-7. [all data]

Mousa, Kay, et al., 1972
Mousa, A.H.N.; Kay, W.B.; Kreglewski, A., The critical constants of binary mixtures of certain perfluoro-compounds with alkanes, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1972, 4, 301-11. [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]

Pace and Bobka, 1961, 2
Pace, E.L.; Bobka, R.J., Thermodynamic Properties of Trifluoroacetonitrile from 12°K to Its Boiling Point, J. Chem. Phys., 1961, 35, 2, 454, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1731951 . [all data]

Pace and Bobka, 1961, 3
Pace, E.L.; Bobka, R.J., Thermodynamic properties of trifluoroacetonitrile from 12°K to its boiling point, J. Chem. Phys., 1961, 35, 454-457. [all data]

Domalski and Hearing, 1996
Domalski, Eugene S.; Hearing, Elizabeth D., Heat Capacities and Entropies of Organic Compounds in the Condensed Phase. Volume III, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1996, 25, 1, 1, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.555985 . [all data]

Zenkevich, 2005
Zenkevich, I.G., Experimentally measured retention indices., 2005. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Pc	Critical pressure
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tc	Critical temperature
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔfusS	Entropy of fusion
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapS	Entropy of vaporization
  ρc	Critical density

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