Ethanol, 2-bromo-

• Formula: C₂H₅BrO
• Molecular weight: 124.964
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2H5BrO/c3-1-2-4/h4H,1-2H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: LDLCZOVUSADOIV-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 540-51-2
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Ethylene bromohydrin; Glycol bromohydrin; 1-Bromo-2-ethanol; 2-Bromoethanol; 2-Hydroxyethyl bromide; CH2BrCH2OH(trans)
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  • Phase change data
  • Gas phase ion energetics data
  • IR Spectrum
  • Mass spectrum (electron ionization)
  • Gas Chromatography
  • References
  • Notes
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Phase change data

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

Reduced pressure boiling point

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
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

IR Spectrum

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Gas Phase Spectrum

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Additional Data

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Spectrum

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Gas Chromatography

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Normal alkane RI, polar column, custom temperature program

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References

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Lecat, 1947
Lecat, M., Orthobaric Azeotropes of Sulfides, Bull. Cl. Sci., Acad. R. Belg., 1947, 33, 160-82. [all data]

Bernardes, Minas da Piedade, et al., 2007
Bernardes, Carlos E.S.; Minas da Piedade, Manuel E.; Amaral, Luísa M.P.F.; Ferreira, Ana I.M.C.L.; Ribeiro da Silva, Manuel A.V.; Diogo, Hermínio P.; Costa Cabral, Benedito J., Energetics of C-F, C-Cl, C-Br, and C-I Bonds in 2-Haloethanols. Enthalpies of Formation of XCH ₂ CH ₂ OH (X = F, Cl, Br, I) Compounds and of the 2-Hydroxyethyl Radical, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2007, 111, 9, 1713-1720, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp0675678 . [all data]

Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., 1990
Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals, Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Milwaukee WI, 1990, 1. [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]

Ohno, Imai, et al., 1985
Ohno, K.; Imai, K.; Harada, Y., Variations in reactivity of lone-pair electrons due to intramolecular hydrogen bonding as observed by penning ionization electron spectroscopy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1985, 107, 8078. [all data]

Kimura, Katsumata, et al., 1981
Kimura, K.; Katsumata, S.; Achiba, Y.; Yamazaki, T.; Iwata, S., Ionization energies, Ab initio assignments, and valence electronic structure for 200 molecules in Handbook of HeI Photoelectron Spectra of Fundamental Organic Compounds, Japan Scientific Soc. Press, Tokyo, 1981. [all data]

Baker, Betteridge, et al., 1971
Baker, A.D.; Betteridge, D.; Kemp, N.R.; Kirby, R.E., Application of photoelectron spectrometry to pesticide analysis. II.Photoelectron spectra of hydroxy-, and halo-alkanes and halohydrins, Anal. Chem., 1971, 43, 375. [all data]

Kobayashi, 1984
Kobayashi, T., Angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of intramolecular hydrogen bond systems: 2-chloroethanol and 2-bromoethanol, Phys. Lett. A, 1984, 103, 424. [all data]

Hoppilliard and Solgadi, 1980
Hoppilliard, Y.; Solgadi, D., Conformational analysis of 2-haloethanols and 2-methoxyethylhalides in a photoelectron spectrometer, Tetrahedron, 1980, 36, 377. [all data]

Holmes and Lossing, 1988
Holmes, J.L.; Lossing, F.P., Heats of formation and bond dissociation energies in halogen-substituted methyl and ethyl radicals, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1988, 110, 7343. [all data]

Holmes and Lossing, 1984
Holmes, J.L.; Lossing, F.P., Heats of formation of organic radicals from appearance energies, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Processes, 1984, 58, 113. [all data]

Ruscic and Berkowitz, 1994
Ruscic, B.; Berkowitz, J., The heats of formation of some C₂H₅O⁺ isomers, relevant bond energies in ethanol and PA(CH₃CHO), J. Chem. Phys., 1994, 101, 10936. [all data]

Solka and Russell, 1974
Solka, B.H.; Russell, M.E., Energetics of formation of some structural isomers of gaseous C₂H₅O⁺ C₂H₆N⁺ ions, J. Phys. Chem., 1974, 78, 1268. [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:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Tboil	Boiling point
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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