2-Pyrrolidinone

• Formula: C₄H₇NO
• Molecular weight: 85.1045
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H7NO/c6-4-2-1-3-5-4/h1-3H2,(H,5,6) Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: HNJBEVLQSNELDL-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 616-45-5
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: γ-Aminobutyrolactam; α-Pyrrolidinone; α-Pyrrolidone; γ-Aminobutyric lactam; γ-Butyrolactam; Butanoic acid, 4-amino-, lactam; Butyrolactam; Pyrrolidone; 2-Oxopyrrolidine; 2-Pyrol; 2-Pyrrolidone; 4-Aminobutyric acid lactam; Pyrrolidon; LAM; γ-Aminobutyric acid lactam; 2-Tetrahydropyrrolone; Azacyclopentan-2-one; Pyrrolidone-2; Soluphor P; NSC 4593; NSC 8413; Butanoic acid, 4-amino-; 2-Pyrol4-aminobutyric acid lactam; a-Pyrrolidinone; a-Pyrrolidone; g-Aminobutyric acid lactam; g-Aminobutyric lactam; g-Aminobutyrolactam; g-Butyrolactam; Pyrrolidone2-pyrrolidone; Pyrrolidin-2-one
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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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

Constant pressure heat capacity of solid

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
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Reduced pressure boiling point

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of fusion

Entropy of fusion

References

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Steele, Chirico, et al., 1989
Steele, W.V.; Chirico, R.D.; Nguyen, A.; Hossenlopp, I.A.; Smith, N.K., Determination of some pure compound ideal-gas enthalpies of formation, AIChE Symp. Ser., 1989, 85, 140-162. [all data]

Strepikeev, Skuratov, et al., 1955
Strepikeev, A.A.; Skuratov, S.M.; Kachinskaya, O.N.; Muromova, R.S.; Brikina, E.P.; Shtekhter, S.M., About the tension of cycle in lactames, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1955, 102, 105-108. [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]

Kolesov, Paukov, et al., 1962
Kolesov, V.P.; Paukov, I.E.; Skuratov, S.M., Free energy change in the polymerization of lactams under standard conditions [low temperature heat capacities of lactams and potassium], Zhur. Fiz. Khim., 1962, 36, 770-779. [all data]

Kolesov, Paukov, et al., 1959
Kolesov, V.P.; Paukov, I.E.; Skuratov, S.M.; Seregin, E.A., Standard entropies of certain lactams, Dokl. Akad. Nauk., 1959, SSSR 128, 130-132. [all data]

Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., 1990
Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals, Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Milwaukee WI, 1990, 1. [all data]

Blumenshine and Sears, 1966
Blumenshine, R.L.; Sears, P.G., Several Properties of the 2-Pyrrolidone-Water System as Functions of Composition and Temperature, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1966, 11, 141. [all data]

Strepikheev, Skuratov, et al., 1955
Strepikheev, A.A.; Skuratov, S.M.; Kachinskaya, O.N.; Muromova, R.S.; Brykina, E.P.; Shtekher, S.M., Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1955, 102, 105. [all data]

Kolesov, Paukov, et al., 1962, 2
Kolesov, V.P.; Paukov, I.E.; Skuratov, S.M., Free energy change in the polymerizations of lactams under standard conditions chloride), Zh. Fiz. Khim., 1962, 36, 770. [all data]

Morgan and Kopp, 1998
Morgan, Kathleen M.; Kopp, Daniel A., Solvent effects on the stability of simple secondary amides «8224», J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 1998, 12, 2759-2764, https://doi.org/10.1039/a802717j . [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]

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]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,liquid	Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid
  Cp,solid	Constant pressure heat capacity of solid
  S°liquid	Entropy of liquid at standard conditions
  S°solid,1 bar	Entropy of solid at standard conditions (1 bar)
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  ΔcH°liquid	Enthalpy of combustion of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°liquid	Enthalpy of formation of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔfusS	Entropy of fusion
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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