3-Methylcholanthrene

• Formula: C₂₁H₁₆
• Molecular weight: 268.3517
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C21H16/c1-13-6-7-15-12-20-17-5-3-2-4-14(17)8-9-18(20)19-11-10-16(13)21(15)19/h2-9,12H,10-11H2,1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: PPQNQXQZIWHJRB-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 56-49-5
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Benz[j]aceanthrylene, 1,2-dihydro-3-methyl-; Cholanthrene, 3-methyl-; Methylcholanthrene; 20-Methylcholanthrene; 20-MC; 3-MC; 3-Methylcholanthrene-(20); MC; MCA; 3-MCA; Rcra waste number U157; 1,2-Dihydro-3-methylbenz[j]aceanthrylene; Cholanthrene, 20(3)-methyl; NSC 21970
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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

Reduced pressure boiling point

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of sublimation

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled by: Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

Ionization energy determinations

References

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Kelley and Rice, 1964
Kelley, J.D.; Rice, F.O., The Vapor Presures of Some Polynumclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons, J. Phys. Chem., 1964, 68, 3794-6. [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]

Lei, Chankalal, et al., 2002
Lei, Ying Duan; Chankalal, Raymond; Chan, Anita; Wania, Frank, Supercooled Liquid Vapor Pressures of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2002, 47, 4, 801-806, https://doi.org/10.1021/je0155148 . [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]

Kelley and Rice, 1964, 2
Kelley, J. Daniel; Rice, Francis Owen, The Vapor Pressures of Some Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons ¹, J. Phys. Chem., 1964, 68, 12, 3794-3796, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100794a043 . [all data]

Kelley and Rice, 1964, 3
Kelley, J.D.; Rice, F.O., The vapor pressures of some polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, J. Phys. Chem., 1964, 68, 3794. [all data]

Slifkin and Allison, 1967
Slifkin, M.A.; Allison, A.C., Measurement of ionization potentials from contact charge transfer spectra, Nature, 1967, 215, 949. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization

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