Tributyrin

• Formula: C₁₅H₂₆O₆
• Molecular weight: 302.3633
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C15H26O6/c1-4-7-13(16)19-10-12(21-15(18)9-6-3)11-20-14(17)8-5-2/h12H,4-11H2,1-3H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: UYXTWWCETRIEDR-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 60-01-5
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: Butanoic acid, 1,2,3-propanetriyl ester; Butyrin, tri-; Butyryl triglyceride; Glycerin tributyrate; Glycerol tributanoate; Glycerol tributyrate; Glyceryl tributyrate; Tri-n-butyrin; Tributin; Tributyroin; Tributyryl glyceride; Butyric acid triester with glycerin; 1,2,3-Propanetriol, tributyrate; Butyrin; Glyceroltributyrin; NSC 661583
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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid

Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
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

Gas Chromatography

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

Normal alkane RI, non-polar column, isothermal

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References

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Karrer and Fioroni, 1922
Karrer, P.; Fioroni, W., 313. Polysaccharide (XVI. Mittellung), Ber., 1922, 55, 2854-2863. [all data]

Nilsson and Wadso, 1986
Nilsson, S.-O.; Wadso, I., Thermodynamic properties of some mono-, di-, and tri esters. Enthalpies of solution in water at 288.15 to 318.15 K and enthalpies of vaporization and heat capacities at 298.15 K, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1986, 18, 673-681. [all data]

Phillips and Mattamal, 1976
Phillips, J.C.; Mattamal, M.M., Correlation of liquid heat capacities for carboxylic esters, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1976, 21, 228-232. [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]

Majer and Svoboda, 1985
Majer, V.; Svoboda, V., Enthalpies of Vaporization of Organic Compounds: A Critical Review and Data Compilation, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1985, 300. [all data]

Kishore, Shobha, et al., 1990
Kishore, K.; Shobha, H.K.; Mattamal, G.J., Structural effects on the vaporization of high molecular weight esters, J. Phys. Chem., 1990, 94, 4, 1642-1648, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100367a077 . [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]

Leol'ko, Krasnykh, et al., 2007
Leol'ko, A.S.; Krasnykh, E.L.; Levanova, S.L.; Kukushkin, I.K., Synthesis and identification of glycerol esters, Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved. Khim. Khim. Tekhnol., 2007, 50, 4, 125-127. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,liquid	Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid
  Tboil	Boiling point
  ΔcH°liquid	Enthalpy of combustion of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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