Butanamide

• Formula: C₄H₉NO
• Molecular weight: 87.1204
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H9NO/c1-2-3-4(5)6/h2-3H2,1H3,(H2,5,6) Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: DNSISZSEWVHGLH-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 541-35-5
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Butyramide; n-Butylamide; n-Butyramide; n-C3H7C(O)NH2
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

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

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of sublimation

Enthalpy of fusion

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled by: Michael M. Meot-Ner (Mautner)

Gas basicity at 298K

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Spectrum

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Gas Chromatography

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References

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Barnes and Pilcher, 1975
Barnes, D.S.; Pilcher, G., Enthalpies of combustion of ethanamide, propanamide, and butanamide, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1975, 7, 377-382. [all data]

Lebedeva and Katin, 1973
Lebedeva, N.D.; Katin, Yu.A., Enthalpies of formation of monocarboxylic acid amides, J. Appl. Chem. USSR (Engl. Transl.), 1973, 46, 2131-21. [all data]

Pedley, Naylor, et al., 1986
Pedley, J.B.; Naylor, R.D.; Kirby, S.P., Thermochemical Data of Organic Compounds, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1986, 1-792. [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]

Davies, Jones, et al., 1959
Davies, M.; Jones, A.H.; Thomas, G.H., The lattice energies of the straight-chain primary amides, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1959, 55, 1100. [all data]

Brunetti, Gatta, et al., 2000
Brunetti, Bruno; Gatta, Giuseppe Della; Piacente, Vincenzo, Enthalpies and Entropies of Sublimation of Some Primary Alkylamides, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2000, 45, 2, 237-241, https://doi.org/10.1021/je9902701 . [all data]

Lebedeva and Katin, 1973, 2
Lebedeva, N.D.; Katin, Y.A., Russ. J. Appl. Chem., 1973, 46, 2131. [all data]

Pedley and Rylance, 1977
Pedley, J.B.; Rylance, J., , Computer Analysed Thermochemical Data: Organic and Organometallic Compounds, University of Sussex, Brighton, 1977. [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]

Jones, 1960
Jones, A.H., Sublimation Pressure Data for Organic Compounds., J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1960, 5, 2, 196-200, https://doi.org/10.1021/je60006a019 . [all data]

Abate, Badea, et al., 2008
Abate, Lorenzo; Badea, Elena; Blanco, Ignazio; Della Gatta, Giuseppe, Heat Capacities and Enthalpies of Solid-Solid Transitions and Fusion of a Series of Eleven Primary Alkylamides by Differential Scanning Calorimetry, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2008, 53, 4, 959-965, https://doi.org/10.1021/je700662a . [all data]

Witt and Grutzmacher, 1997
Witt, M.; Grutzmacher, H.F., Proton-bound dimers of aliphatic carboxamides: gas-phase basicity and dissociation energy, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Processes, 1997, 165, 49. [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]

Yasuhara, 1987
Yasuhara, A., Identification of Volatile Compounds in Poultry Manure by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, J. Chromatogr., 1987, 387, 371-378, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9673(01)94539-X . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation
  ΔsubH°	Enthalpy of sublimation at standard conditions
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization

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