Benzene, 1,4-difluoro-

• Formula: C₆H₄F₂
• Molecular weight: 114.0928
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C6H4F2/c7-5-1-2-6(8)4-3-5/h1-4H Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: QUGUFLJIAFISSW-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 540-36-3
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Benzene, p-difluoro-; p-Difluorobenzene; 1,4-Difluorobenzene; para-Difluorobenzene
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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
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Enthalpy of vaporization

Temperature of phase transition

Enthalpy of phase transition

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
M - Michael M. Meot-Ner (Mautner) and Sharon G. Lias
RCD - Robert C. Dunbar

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Individual Reactions

C₆H₃F₂^- +  =

By formula: C₆H₃F₂^- + H⁺ = C₆H₄F₂

 +  = ( • )

By formula: H₄N⁺ + C₆H₄F₂ = (H₄N⁺ • C₆H₄F₂)

Free energy of reaction

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Cl^- + C₆H₄F₂ = (Cl^- • C₆H₄F₂)

C₆H₆⁺ +  = (C₆H₆⁺ • )

By formula: C₆H₆⁺ + C₆H₄F₂ = (C₆H₆⁺ • C₆H₄F₂)

Bond type: Charge transfer bond (positive ion)

C₆H₄F₂⁺ +  = (C₆H₄F₂⁺ • )

By formula: C₆H₄F₂⁺ + C₆H₄F₂ = (C₆H₄F₂⁺ • C₆H₄F₂)

Bond type: Charge transfer bond (positive ion)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Cr⁺ + C₆H₄F₂ = (Cr⁺ • C₆H₄F₂)

References

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

Weast and Grasselli, 1989
CRC Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds, 2nd Editon, Weast,R.C and Grasselli, J.G., ed(s)., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 1989, 1. [all data]

Majer and Svoboda, 1985
Majer, V.; Svoboda, V., Enthalpies of Vaporization of Organic Compounds: A Critical Review and Data Compilation, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1985, 300. [all data]

Bergmann, Berkovic, et al., 1956
Bergmann, E.D.; Berkovic, S.; Ikan, R., A New Method for the Preparation of Aromatic Fluorine Compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1956, 78, 6037-9. [all data]

Goates, Ott, et al., 1976
Goates, J.R.; Ott, J.B.; Moellmer, J.F., Solid + Liquid Phase Equilibria and Solid-compound Formation in Halobenzenes + Aromatic Hydrocarbons, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1976, 8, 217. [all data]

Osborn and Scott, 1980
Osborn, A.G.; Scott, D.W., Vapor pressures of 17 miscellanenous organic compounds, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1980, 12, 429-438. [all data]

Basarová and Svoboda, 1991
Basarová, Pavlína; Svoboda, Václav, Calculation of heats of vaporization of halogenated hydrocarbons from saturated vapour pressure data, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 1991, 68, 13-34, https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-3812(91)85008-I . [all data]

Findlay, 1969
Findlay, T.J.V., Vapor pressures of fluorobenzenes from 5° to 50°C, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1969, 14, 229. [all data]

Good, Lacina, et al., 1962
Good, W.D.; Lacina, J.L.; Scott, D.W.; McCullough, J.P., Combustion calorimetry of organic fluorine compounds. The heats of combustion and formation of the difluorobenzenes, 4-fluorotoluene and m-trifluorotoluic acid, J. Phys. Chem., 1962, 66, 1529-1532. [all data]

Lichanot, 1991
Lichanot, A., Heat capacities of fluroaniline, fluorophenol and difluorobenzene in condensed phase, Thermochim. Acta, 1991, 177, 265-272. [all data]

Buker, Nibbering, et al., 1997
Buker, H.H.; Nibbering, N.M.M.; Espinosa, D.; Mongin, F.; Schlosser, M., Additivity of substituent effects in the fluoroarene series: Equilibrium acidity in the gas phase and deprotonation rates in ethereal solution, Tetrahed. Lett., 1997, 38, 49, 8519-8522, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-4039(97)10303-3 . [all data]

Briscese and Riveros, 1975
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Deakyne and Meot-Ner (Mautner), 1985
Deakyne, C.A.; Meot-Ner (Mautner), M., Unconventional Ionic Hydrogen Bonds. 2. NH+ pi. Complexes of Onium Ions with Olefins and Benzene Derivatives, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1985, 107, 2, 474, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00288a034 . [all data]

Larson and McMahon, 1984
Larson, J.W.; McMahon, T.B., Hydrogen bonding in gas phase anions. An experimental investigation of the interaction between chloride ion and bronsted acids from ICR chloride exchange equilibria, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1984, 106, 517. [all data]

Larson and McMahon, 1984, 2
Larson, J.W.; McMahon, T.B., Gas phase negative ion chemistry of alkylchloroformates, Can. J. Chem., 1984, 62, 675. [all data]

Ernstberger, Krause, et al., 1990
Ernstberger, B.; Krause, H.; Kiermeier, A.; Neusser, H.J., Multiphoton ionization and dissociation of mixed van der Waals clusters in a linear reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometer, J. Chem. Phys., 1990, 92, 9, 5285, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.458603 . [all data]

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Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  T	Temperature
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  Ttrs	Temperature of phase transition
  ΔHtrs	Enthalpy of phase transition
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrS°	Entropy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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