Cycloheptane, methyl-

• Formula: C₈H₁₆
• Molecular weight: 112.2126
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C8H16/c1-8-6-4-2-3-5-7-8/h8H,2-7H2,1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: GYNNXHKOJHMOHS-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 4126-78-7
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• Other names: Methylcycloheptane
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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

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Individual Reactions

 +  =

By formula: H₂ + C₈H₁₄ = C₈H₁₆

 +  =

By formula: H₂ + C₈H₁₄ = C₈H₁₆

4 +  =

By formula: 4H₂ + C₈H₈ = C₈H₁₆

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Ionization energy determinations

Gas Chromatography

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Kovats' RI, non-polar column, isothermal

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Kovats' RI, non-polar column, temperature ramp

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Normal alkane RI, non-polar column, custom temperature program

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References

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Turner and Garner, 1958
Turner, R.B.; Garner, R.H., Heats of hydrogenation. V. Relative stabilities in certain exocyclic-endocyclic olefin pairs, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1958, 80, 1424-1430. [all data]

Turner and Garner, 1957
Turner, R.B.; Garner, R.H., Heats of hydrogenation. V. Relative stabilities in certain exocyclic-endocyclic olefin pairs, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1957, 80, 1424-1430. [all data]

Turner, Meador, et al., 1957
Turner, R.B.; Meador, W.R.; Doering, W.E.; Knox, L.H.; Mayer, J.R.; Wiley, D.W., Heats of hydrogenation. III. Hydrogenation of cycllooctatetraene and of some seven-membered non-benzenoid aromatic compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1957, 79, 4127-4133. [all data]

Holmes and Lossing, 1991
Holmes, J.L.; Lossing, F.P., Ionization energies of homologous organic compounds and correlation with molecular size, Org. Mass Spectrom., 1991, 26, 537. [all data]

Schomburg, 1966
Schomburg, G., Gaschromatographische Retentionsdaten und struktur chemischer verbindungen. III. Alkylverzweigte und ungesättigte cyclische Kohlenwasserstoffe, J. Chromatogr., 1966, 23, 18-41, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9673(01)98653-4 . [all data]

Wehrli and Kováts, 1959
Wehrli, A.; Kováts, E., Gas-chromatographische Charakterisierung ogranischer Verbindungen. Teil 3: Berechnung der Retentionsindices aliphatischer, alicyclischer und aromatischer Verbindungen, Helv. Chim. Acta, 1959, 7, 7, 2709-2736, https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.19590420745 . [all data]

Louis, 1971
Louis, R., Kovats-index-tafeln zur gaschromatographischen analyse von kohlenwasserstoffgemischen, Erdoel Kohle Erdgas Petrochem., 1971, 24, 2, 88-94. [all data]

Zenkevich, 2000
Zenkevich, I.G., Mutual Correlation between Gas Chromatographic Retention Indices of Unsaturated and Saturated Hydrocarbons found by Molecular Dynamics, Z. Anal. Chem., 2000, 55, 10, 1091-1097. [all data]

Peng, Yang, et al., 1991
Peng, C.T.; Yang, Z.C.; Ding, S.F., Prediction of rentention idexes. II. Structure-retention index relationship on polar columns, J. Chromatogr., 1991, 586, 1, 85-112, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9673(91)80028-F . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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