1,3-Dioxane

• Formula: C₄H₈O₂
• Molecular weight: 88.1051
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H8O2/c1-2-5-4-6-3-1/h1-4H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: VDFVNEFVBPFDSB-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 505-22-6
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: m-Dioxane; m-Dioxin, dihydro-; 1,3-Dioxacyclohexane; 1,3-Propanediol formal
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  • IR Spectrum
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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
DRB - Donald R. Burgess, Jr.
GT - Glushko Thermocenter, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Constant pressure heat capacity of gas

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

2 =

By formula: 2C₄H₈O₂ = C₈H₁₆O₄

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
HL - Edward P. Hunter and Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

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Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

IR Spectrum

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• SOLUTION (10% CCl4 FOR 4000-1330, 10% CS2 FOR 1330-450 CM^-1) VS SOLVENT; CARY 90 (GRATING); DIGITIZED BY COBLENTZ SOCIETY (BATCH II) FROM HARD COPY; 2 cm^-1 resolution

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• gas; HP-GC/MS/IRD

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Spectrum

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References

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Bystrm and Mansson, 1982
Bystrm, K.; Mansson, M., Enthalpies of formation of some cyclic 1,3- and 1,4-Di- and poly-ethers: Thermochemical strain in the -O-C-O and -O-C-C-O- groups, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2, 1982, 565. [all data]

Pihlaja and Luoma, 1968
Pihlaja, K.; Luoma, S., Heats of formation and conformational energies of 1,3-dioxane and its methyl homologues, Acta Chem. Scand., 1968, 22, 2401-2414. [all data]

Pihlaja and Heikkila, 1967
Pihlaja, K.; Heikkila, J., The configurations of isomeric 2,2,4,6-tetramethyl-1,3-dioxanes, Acta Chem. Scand., 1967, 21, 2430-2434. [all data]

Snelson and Skinner, 1961
Snelson, A.; Skinner, H.A., Heats of combustion: sec-propanol, 1,4-dioxan, 1,3-dioxan and tetrahydropyran, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1961, 57, 2125-2131. [all data]

Dorofeeva O.V., 1992
Dorofeeva O.V., Ideal gas thermodynamic properties of oxygen heterocyclic compounds. Part 2. Six-membered, seven-membered and eight-membered rings, Thermochim. Acta, 1992, 200, 121-150. [all data]

Thermodynamics Research Center, 1997
Thermodynamics Research Center, Selected Values of Properties of Chemical Compounds., Thermodynamics Research Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1997. [all data]

Curl R.F., 1973
Curl R.F., Determination of thermodynamic functions from absolute intensity measurements in microwave spectroscopy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1973, 95, 6182-6190. [all data]

Szymanski, 1991
Szymanski, R., Equilibrium between 1,3 and its cyclooligomers, Makromol. Chem., 1991, 192, 2961-2968. [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]

Collin and Conde, 1966
Collin, J.E.; Conde, G., L'ionisation et la dissociation des polyethers cycliques soumis a l'impact electronique, Bull. Classe Sci. Acad. Roy. Belg., 1966, 52, 978. [all data]

Asfandiarov and Zykov, 1983
Asfandiarov, N.L.; Zykov, B.G., Photoelectron spectra of methyl-substituted 1,3-Dioxanes, Bull. Acad. Sci. USSR, Div. Chem. Sci., 1983, 10, 2069, In original 2293. [all data]

Kobayashi and Nagakura, 1973
Kobayashi, T.; Nagakura, S., Photoelectron spectra of tetrahydropyran, 1,3-dioxane, and 1,4-dioxane, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 1973, 46, 1558. [all data]

Sweigart and Turner, 1972
Sweigart, D.A.; Turner, D.W., Lone pair orbitals and their interactions studied by photoelectron spectroscopy. II. Equivalent orbitals in saturated oxygen and sulfur J. Heterocycl. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1972, 94, 5599. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Cp,gas	Constant pressure heat capacity of gas
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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