t-Butyl nitrite

• Formula: C₄H₉NO₂
• Molecular weight: 103.1198
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H9NO2/c1-4(2,3)7-5-6/h1-3H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: IOGXOCVLYRDXLW-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 540-80-7
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: (CH3)3CONO; tert-Butyl nitrite; Nitrous acid, 1,1-dimethylethyl ester; Nitrous acid, t-butyl ester; α,α-Dimethylethyl nitrite; tert.-Butyl nitrite
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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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
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

Enthalpy of vaporization

Gas phase ion energetics data

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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

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Gas Chromatography

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References

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Batt, Christie, et al., 1974
Batt, L.; Christie, K.; Milne, R.T.; Summers, A.J., Heats of formation of C₁-C₄ alkyl nitrites (RONO) and their RO-NO bond dissociation energies, Int. J. Chem. Kinet., 1974, 6, 877-886. [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]

American Tokyo Kasei, 1988
American Tokyo Kasei, TCI American Organic Chemical 88/89 Catalog, American Tokyo Kasei, Portland, OR, 1988, 1610. [all data]

Frinton Laboratories Inc., 1986
Frinton Laboratories Inc., Catalog Number 11, Frinton Laboratories Inc., Vineland, NJ, 1986, 99. [all data]

Stephenson and Malanowski, 1987
Stephenson, Richard M.; Malanowski, Stanislaw, Handbook of the Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds, 1987, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3173-2 . [all data]

Thompson and Dainton, 1937
Thompson, H.W.; Dainton, F.S., The photochemistry of alkyl nitrites. III, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1937, 33, 1546, https://doi.org/10.1039/tf9373301546 . [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]

Aldrich, 1966
Aldrich, J.E., UV atlas of organic compounds, 1966, 1, C4/3. [all data]

Zenkevich, 2005
Zenkevich, I.G., Experimentally measured retention indices., 2005. [all data]

Zenkevich and Malamakhov, 1984
Zenkevich, I.G.; Malamakhov, A.S., Group Chromato Mass Spectrometric Identification of Alkylnitrites, Zh. Anal. Khim. (Rus), 1984, 39, 10, 1864-1868. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  ΔcH°liquid	Enthalpy of combustion of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔfH°liquid	Enthalpy of formation of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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