3-Butenoic acid

• Formula: C₄H₆O₂
• Molecular weight: 86.0892
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H6O2/c1-2-3-4(5)6/h2H,1,3H2,(H,5,6) Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: PVEOYINWKBTPIZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 625-38-7
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: β-Butenoic acid; Acetic acid, ethenyl-; Vinylacetic acid; CH2=CHCH2COOH; but-3-enoic acid
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Phase change data

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Reduced pressure boiling point

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Ionization energy determinations

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Gas Chromatography

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References

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

D'Souza and Teja, 1987
D'Souza, R.; Teja, A.S., The prediction of the vapor pressures of carboxylic acids, Chem. Eng. Commun., 1987, 61, 13. [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]

Mohmand, Hirabayashi, et al., 1981
Mohmand, S.; Hirabayashi, T.; Bock, H., Gasphasen-reaktionen, 22. Thermische erzeugung von C₄H₄O: Vinylketen und ethylidenketen, Chem. Ber., 1981, 114, 1609. [all data]

Holmes, Terlouw, et al., 1979
Holmes, J.L.; Terlouw, J.K.; Vijfhuizen, P.C.; A'Campo, C., Metastable ion studies XII-Molecular and fragment ion structures for isomeric C₄H₆O₂ acids, Org. Mass Spectrom., 1979, 14, 204. [all data]

Alasalvar, Shahidi, et al., 2003
Alasalvar, C.; Shahidi, F.; Cadwallader, K.R., Comparison of natural and roasted Turkish Tombul hazelnut (Corylus avellana L.) volatiles and flavor by DHA/GC/MS and descriptive sensory analysis, J. Agric. Food Chem., 2003, 51, 17, 5067-5072, https://doi.org/10.1021/jf0300846 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Pc	Critical pressure
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tc	Critical temperature

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