Methyl valerate

• Formula: C₆H₁₂O₂
• Molecular weight: 116.1583
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C6H12O2/c1-3-4-5-6(7)8-2/h3-5H2,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: HNBDRPTVWVGKBR-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 624-24-8
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: Pentanoic acid, methyl ester; Valeric acid, methyl ester; Methyl n-valerate; Methyl pentanoate; Methyl valerianate; CH3(CH2)3COOCH3; n-Valeric acid methyl ester; Methyl ester of pentanoic acid
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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
DRB - Donald R. Burgess, Jr.

Enthalpy of vaporization

Gas phase ion energetics data

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

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

References

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Adriaanse, Dekker, et al., 1964
Adriaanse, N.; Dekker, H.; Coops, J., Some Physical Constants of Normal, Saturated Fatty Acids and Their Methyl Esters, Recl. Trav. Chim. Pays-Bas, 1964, 83, 557. [all data]

De Heen, 1888
De Heen, P., Research on Physics and Theory of Liquids, Experimental Part Paris, 1888. [all data]

Nadezhdin, 1887
Nadezhdin, A., Rep. Phys., 1887, 23, 708. [all data]

Camacho, Moll, et al., 2007
Camacho, Alberto G.; Moll, Juan M.; Canzonieri, Salvador; Postigo, Miguel A., Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Data for the Binary Methyl Esters (Butyrate, Pentanoate, and Hexanoate) (1) + Propanenitrile (2) Systems at 93.32 kPa, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2007, 52, 3, 871-875, https://doi.org/10.1021/je060469v . [all data]

Camacho, Mariano, et al., 2006
Camacho, Alberto G.; Mariano, Alejandra; Mussari, Lelia; Postigo, Miguel A., Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Data for the Binary Methyl Esters (Butyrate, Pentanoate, and Hexanoate) (1) + Acetonitrile (2) Systems at 93.32 kPa, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2006, 51, 5, 1536-1540, https://doi.org/10.1021/je060001s . [all data]

Camacho, 2006
Camacho, A.G., , Ph.D. Thesis, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, 2006. [all data]

Ortega, Espiau, et al., 2003
Ortega, Juan; Espiau, Fernando; Tojo, José; Canosa, José; Rodríguez, Ana, Isobaric Vapor-Liquid Equilibria and Excess Properties for the Binary Systems of Methyl Esters + Heptane, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2003, 48, 5, 1183-1190, https://doi.org/10.1021/je030117d . [all data]

van Genderen, van Miltenburg, et al., 2002
van Genderen, Aad C.G.; van Miltenburg, J. Cees; Blok, Jacobus G.; van Bommel, Mark J.; van Ekeren, Paul J.; van den Berg, Gerrit J.K.; Oonk, Harry A.J., Liquid--vapour equilibria of the methyl esters of alkanoic acids: vapour pressures as a function of temperature and standard thermodynamic function changes, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2002, 202, 1, 109-120, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-3812(02)00097-3 . [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]

Howe, Williams, et al., 1969
Howe, I.; Williams, D.H.; Kingston, D.G.I.; Tannenbaum, H.P., Substituent effects in the mass spectra of some - and -substituted methyl butyrates, J. Chem. Soc. B, 1969, 439. [all data]

Holmes and Lossing, 1980
Holmes, J.L.; Lossing, F.P., Gas-phase heats of formation of keto and enol ions of carbonyl compounds., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1980, 102, 1591. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Pc	Critical pressure
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tc	Critical temperature
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions
  ρc	Critical density

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