1,3,5-Cycloheptatriene

• Formula: C₇H₈
• Molecular weight: 92.1384
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C7H8/c1-2-4-6-7-5-3-1/h1-6H,7H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: CHVJITGCYZJHLR-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 544-25-2
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Tropilidene; Cyclohepta-1,3,5-triene; Cycloheptatriene; Tropilidin; UN 2603
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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:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
B - John E. Bartmess

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Individual Reactions

3 +  =

By formula: 3H₂ + C₇H₈ = C₇H₁₄

C₇H₇^- +  =

By formula: C₇H₇^- + H⁺ = C₇H₈

=

By formula: C₇H₈ = C₇H₈

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

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Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

De-protonation reactions

C₇H₇^- +  =

By formula: C₇H₇^- + H⁺ = C₇H₈

IR Spectrum

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

Gas Phase Spectrum

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Additional Data

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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UV/Visible spectrum

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Data compiled by: Victor Talrose, Eugeny B. Stern, Antonina A. Goncharova, Natalia A. Messineva, Natalia V. Trusova, Margarita V. Efimkina

Spectrum

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References

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Roth, Bohm, et al., 1983
Roth, W.R.; Bohm, M.; Lenhartz, H-W.; Vogel, E., Heats of hydrogenation. Part 5. Resonance energy of bridged [10]annulenes, Angew. Chem., 1983, 95, 1011-1012. [all data]

Finke H.L., 1956
Finke H.L., Cycloheptane, cyclooctane, and 1,3,5-cycloheptatriene. Low-temperature thermal properties, vapor pressure, and derived chemical thermodynamic properties, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1956, 78, 5469-5476. [all data]

Dorofeeva O.V., 1986
Dorofeeva O.V., Thermodynamic properties of twenty-one monocyclic hydrocarbons, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1986, 15, 437-464. [all data]

Evans M.V., 1960
Evans M.V., Vibrational spectra and structure of the tropilidene molecule, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1960, 82, 1876-1882. [all data]

Roth, Klaerner, et al., 1983
Roth, W.R.; Klaerner, F.G.; Gerit, F.; Grimme, W.; Koeser, H.G.; Busch, R.; Muskulus, B.; Breuckmann, R.; Scholz, B.P.; Lennartz, H.W., Stereochemistry of the bicyclo[2.1.0]pentane ring opening: thermolysis of tricyclo[3.2.0.0(,)]heptane derivatives, Chem. Ber., 1983, 116, 2717-2737. [all data]

Turner, Meador, et al., 1957
Turner, R.B.; Meador, W.R.; Winkler, R.E., Heats of hydrogenation. I. Apparatus and the heats of hydrogenation of bicyclo[2,2,1]heptene, bicyclo[2,2,1]heptadiene, bicyclo[2,2,2]octene and bicyclo[2,2,2]octadiene, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1957, 79, 4116-4121. [all data]

Conn, Kistiakowsky, et al., 1939
Conn, J.B.; Kistiakowsky, G.B.; Smith, E.A., Heats of organic reactions. VIII. Some further hydrogenations, including those of some acetylenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1939, 61, 1868-1876. [all data]

Cox and Pilcher, 1970
Cox, J.D.; Pilcher, G., Thermochemistry of Organic and Organometallic Compounds, Academic Press, New York, 1970, 1-636. [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]

Gorlitz and Gunther, 1969
Gorlitz, M.; Gunther, H., Protonenresonanz-spektroskopie ungesattigter ringsysteme-XIII, Tetrahedron, 1969, 25, 4467-4480. [all data]

Traeger and McLoughlin, 1978
Traeger, J.C.; McLoughlin, R.G., A photoionization study of the energetics of C₇H₇⁺ ion formed from C₇H₈ precursors, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Phys., 1978, 27, 319. [all data]

Hoffman, 1974
Hoffman, M.K., Hidden rearrangements in the mass spectral decomposition of cycloheptatriene, Z. Naturforsch. A:, 1974, 29, 1077. [all data]

Bodor, Dewar, et al., 1970
Bodor, N.; Dewar, M.J.S.; Worley, S.D., Photoelectron spectra of molecules. III. Ionization potentials of some cyclic hydrocarbons and their derivatives, and heats of formation and ionization potentials calculated by the MINDO SCF MO method, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1970, 92, 19. [all data]

Akopyan and Vilesov, 1966
Akopyan, M.E.; Vilesov, F.I., A mass-spectrometric study of the photo-ionisation of benzene derivatives at wavelengths up to 885 A, Zh. Fiz. Khim., 1966, 40, 125, In original 63. [all data]

Price, Passmore, et al., 1963
Price, W.C.; Passmore, T.R.; Roessler, D.M., [Title unavailable], Faraday Discuss. Chem. Soc., 1963, 35, 238. [all data]

Muller, Schweig, et al., 1974
Muller, C.; Schweig, A.; Vermeer, H., Methode zur Berechnung induktiver und konjugativer Effekte - Andwendung auf Tropon, Angew. Chem., 1974, 86, 275. [all data]

Harrison, Haynes, et al., 1965
Harrison, A.G.; Haynes, P.; McLean, S.; Meyer, F., The mass spectra of methyl-substituted cyclopentadienes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1965, 87, 5099. [all data]

Lifshitz and Bauer, 1963
Lifshitz, C.; Bauer, S.H., Mass spectra of valence tautomers, J. Phys. Chem., 1963, 67, 1629. [all data]

Traeger and McLoughlin, 1977
Traeger, J.C.; McLoughlin, R.G., Threshold photoionization and dissociation of toluene and cycloheptatriene, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1977, 99, 7351. [all data]

Harrison, Honnen, et al., 1960
Harrison, A.G.; Honnen, L.R.; Dauben, H.J., Jr.; Lossing, F.P., Free radicals by mass spectrometry. XX. Ionization potentials of cyclopentadienyl and cycloheptatrienyl radicals, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1960, 82, 5593. [all data]

Dauben and Dietsche, 1972
Dauben, W.G.; Dietsche, T.J., Stereospecific introduction of functionalized angular methyl groups via the claisen rearrangement. The octalin and hydrindenyl ring systems, J. Org. Chem., 1972, 37, 8, 1212-1216. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Cp,gas	Constant pressure heat capacity of gas
  S°gas	Entropy of gas at standard conditions
  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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