Phenylethyne

• Formula: C₈H₆
• Molecular weight: 102.1332
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C8H6/c1-2-8-6-4-3-5-7-8/h1,3-7H Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: UEXCJVNBTNXOEH-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 536-74-3
• Chemical structure:
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• Isotopologues:
  • Benzene, beta-deuteroethynyl-
  • Benzene, beta-deuteroethynyl-
• Other names: Benzene, ethynyl-; Ethyne, phenyl-; Ethynylbenzene; Phenylacetylene; 1-Phenylethyne; Acetylene, phenyl-; Ethinylbenzene
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  • IR Spectrum
  • Mass spectrum (electron ionization)
  • UV/Visible spectrum
  • References
  • Notes
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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
GT - Glushko Thermocenter, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Constant pressure heat capacity of gas

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

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Individual Reactions

C₈H₅^- +  =

By formula: C₈H₅^- + H⁺ = C₈H₆

2 +  =

By formula: 2H₂ + C₈H₆ = C₈H₁₀

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:
B - John E. Bartmess
MM - Michael M. Meot-Ner (Mautner)
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman
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

View reactions leading to C₈H₆⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Proton affinity at 298K

Gas basicity at 298K

Ionization energy determinations

De-protonation reactions

C₈H₅^- +  =

By formula: C₈H₅^- + H⁺ = C₈H₆

IR Spectrum

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Data compiled by: Coblentz Society, Inc.

• GAS (VAPOR PRESSURE OF LIQUID AT ROOM TEMPERATURE); Not specified, most likely a prism, grating, or hybrid spectrometer.; DIGITIZED BY NIST FROM HARD COPY (FROM TWO SEGMENTS); 4 cm^-1 resolution
• GAS (VAPOR PRESSURE OF LIQUID AT ROOM TEMPERATURE) $$ SEE SPECTRUM NO. 10136 FOR "SOLUTION" STATE $$ SEE SP. ACTA, VOL. 16, P. 918, 1960; Not specified, most likely a prism, grating, or hybrid spectrometer.; DIGITIZED BY NIST FROM HARD COPY (FROM TWO SEGMENTS); 2 cm^-1 resolution
• SOLUTION (10% CCl4 FOR 2.5-7.5, 10% CS2 FOR 7.5-15 MICRON); Not specified, most likely a prism, grating, or hybrid spectrometer.; DIGITIZED BY NIST FROM HARD COPY; 4 cm^-1 resolution
• SOLUTION (10% IN CCl4 FOR 3800-1333, 10% IN CS2 FOR 1333-450 CM^-1); DOW KBr FOREPRISM-GRATING; DIGITIZED BY NIST FROM HARD COPY (FROM TWO SEGMENTS); 4 cm^-1 resolution

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

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Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Spectrum

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UV/Visible spectrum

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Data compiled by: Victor Talrose, Alexander N. Yermakov, Alexy A. Usov, Antonina A. Goncharova, Axlexander N. Leskin, Natalia A. Messineva, Natalia V. Trusova, Margarita V. Efimkina

Spectrum

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References

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Davis, Allinger, et al., 1985
Davis, H.E.; Allinger, N.L.; Rogers, D.W., Enthalpies of hydrogenation of phenylalkynes: indirect determination of the enthalpy of formation of diphenylcyclopropenone, J. Org. Chem., 1985, 50, 3601-3604. [all data]

Evans J.C., 1960
Evans J.C., The vibrational spectra ethynyl benzene and ethynyl benzene-d, Spectrochim. Acta, 1960, 16, 918-928. [all data]

Bartmess, Scott, et al., 1979
Bartmess, J.E.; Scott, J.A.; McIver, R.T., Jr., The gas phase acidity scale from methanol to phenol, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1979, 101, 6047. [all data]

Rogers and McLafferty, 1971
Rogers, D.W.; McLafferty, F.J., A new hydrogen calorimeter. Heats of hydrogenation of allyl and vinyl unsaturation adjacent to a ring, Tetrahedron, 1971, 27, 3765-3775. [all data]

Flitcroft and Skinner, 1958
Flitcroft, T.L.; Skinner, H.A., Heats of hydrogenation Part 2.-Acetylene derivatives, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1958, 54, 47-53. [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]

Aue, Guidoni, et al., 2000
Aue, D.H.; Guidoni, M.; Betowski, L.D., Ab initio calculated gas-phase basicities of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 2000, 201, 283. [all data]

Lichtenberger, Renshaw, et al., 1993
Lichtenberger, D.L.; Renshaw, S.K.; Bullock, R.M., Metal-acetylide bonding in (η<5>-C₅H₅)Fe(CO)₂C≡CR compounds. Measures of metal-dπ-acetylide-π interactions from photoelectron spectroscopy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1993, 115, 3276. [all data]

Dyke, Ozeki, et al., 1992
Dyke, J.M.; Ozeki, H.; Takahashi, M.; Cockett, M.C.R.; Kimura, K., A study of phenylacetylene and styrene, and their argon complexes PA-Ar and ST-Ar with laser threshold photoelectron spectroscopy, J. Chem. Phys., 1992, 97, 8926. [all data]

Elbel, Lienert, et al., 1981
Elbel, S.; Lienert, K.; Krebs, A.; tom Dieck, H., Phenylethin - mustersonde fur substituenteneffekte, Liebigs Ann. Chem., 1981, 1785. [all data]

Koppel, Schwarz, et al., 1974
Koppel, C.; Schwarz, H.; Bohlmann, F., Elektronenstossinduzierte fragmentierung von acetylenverbindungen, Org. Mass Spectrom., 1974, 9, 324. [all data]

Rabalais and Colton, 1973
Rabalais, J.W.; Colton, R.J., Electronic interaction between the phenyl group and its unsaturated substituents, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1973, 1, 83. [all data]

Watanabe, Nakayama, et al., 1962
Watanabe, K.; Nakayama, T.; Mottl, J., Ionization potentials of some molecules, J. Quant. Spectry. Radiative Transfer, 1962, 2, 369. [all data]

Deshmukh, Dutta, et al., 1982
Deshmukh, P.; Dutta, T.K.; Hwang, J.L.-S.; Housecroft, C.E.; Fehlner, T.P., Photoelectron spectroscopic measurements of the relative charge on carbyne fragments bound to polynuclear cobalt carbonyl clusters, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1982, 104, 1740. [all data]

Palmer, Moyes, et al., 1980
Palmer, M.H.; Moyes, W.; Spiers, M., The electronic structure of substituted benzenes: Ab initio calculations and photoelectron spectra for benzonitrile, the tolunitriles, fluorobenzonitriles, dicyanobenzenes and ethynylbenzene, J. Mol. Struct., 1980, 62, 165. [all data]

Bock, Aygen, et al., 1980
Bock, H.; Aygen, S.; Rosmus, P.; Solouki, B., Analyse und optimierung von gasphasen-reaktionen. XVII. Selenoketen, Chem. Ber., 1980, 113, 3187. [all data]

Carlier and Mouvier, 1979
Carlier, P.; Mouvier, G., Etude par spectrometrie de photoelectrons de la structure electronique des phenyl-alcynes conjugues, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1979, 16, 169-181. [all data]

Griebel, Hohlneicher, et al., 1974
Griebel, R.; Hohlneicher, G.; Dorr, F., A photoelectron spectroscopic study of benzonitrile, ethynylbenzene and some of its substituted derivatives, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1974, 4, 185. [all data]

Maier and Turner, 1973
Maier, J.P.; Turner, D.W., Steric inhibition of resonance studied by molecular photoelectron spectroscopy. Part 2. Phenylethylenes, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. 2, 1973, 69, 196. [all data]

Fihtengolts, et al., 1969
Fihtengolts, V.S., et al., Atlas of UV Absorption Spectra of Substances Used in Synthetic Rubber Manufacture, 1969, 172. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

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

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