Methyl nitrate

• Formula: CH₃NO₃
• Molecular weight: 77.0394
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/CH3NO3/c1-5-2(3)4/h1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: LRMHVVPPGGOAJQ-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 598-58-3
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Nitric acid, methyl ester; CH3ONO2; Methylester kyseliny dusicne
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid

Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of fusion

Entropy of fusion

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Individual Reactions

0.76 + 0.62 +  =  + 

By formula: 0.76NO₂ + 0.62N₂O₄ + CH₃NO₃ = N₂O₅ + CH₃NO₂

 +  =  + 

By formula: CH₄O + HNO₃ = CH₃NO₃ + H₂O

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:
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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References

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Ray and Ogg, 1959
Ray, J.D.; Ogg, R.A., Jr., The heat of formation of methyl nitrate, J. Phys. Chem., 1959, 63, 1522-1523. [all data]

Gray and Smith, 1953
Gray, P.; Smith, P.L., The thermodynamic properties of methyl nitrate, J. Chem. Soc., 1953, 1953, 2380-2385. [all data]

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

Rogowski, 1942
Rogowski, F., Molecular Structure of Nitromethane, Methyl Nitrite and Methyl Nitrate in the Gas State by Electron Diffraction, Chem. Ber., 1942, 75, 244. [all data]

Perkin, 1889
Perkin, W.H., The Magneto Rotatory Power of Nitrogne Compounds. also of Hydrochloric Hydrobromic and Hydroioidic Acids and of some of the Salts of Ammonia and the Compound Ammonias, J. Chem. Soc., 1889, 55, 680. [all data]

Gray and Smith, 1953, 2
Gray, P.; Smith, P.L., The thermodynamic properties of methyl nitrate, J. Chem. Soc., 1953, 1953, 2380-85. [all data]

Gray and Pratt, 1957
Gray, P.; Pratt, M.W.T., The latent heats of vaporization of the alkyl nitrates, J. Chem. Soc., 1957, 2163-21. [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]

Domalski and Hearing, 1996
Domalski, Eugene S.; Hearing, Elizabeth D., Heat Capacities and Entropies of Organic Compounds in the Condensed Phase. Volume III, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1996, 25, 1, 1, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.555985 . [all data]

Rubtsov, 1986
Rubtsov, Yu.I., Thermodynamic calculation of equilibrium in nitration of alcohols, Bull. Acad. Sci. USSR, Div. Chem. Sci., 1986, 19-22. [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]

Dewar, Shanshal, et al., 1969
Dewar, M.J.S.; Shanshal, M.; Worley, S.D., Calculated and observed ionization potentials gf nitroalkanes and of nitrous and nitric acids and esters. Extension of the MINDO method to nitrogen-oxygen compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1969, 91, 3590. [all data]

Fraser and Paul, 1968
Fraser, R.T.M.; Paul, N.C., The mass spectrometry of nitrate esters and related compounds. Part I, J. Chem. Soc. B, 1968, 659. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Cp,liquid	Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid
  S°liquid	Entropy of liquid at standard conditions
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔfusS	Entropy of fusion
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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