Hexadecanoic acid, ethyl ester

• Formula: C₁₈H₃₆O₂
• Molecular weight: 284.4772
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C18H36O2/c1-3-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18(19)20-4-2/h3-17H2,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: XIRNKXNNONJFQO-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 628-97-7
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Palmitic acid, ethyl ester; Ethyl hexadecanoate; Ethyl palmitate; Ethyl n-hexadecanoate; Ethyl hexadecanoate (Ethyl palmitate)
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  • Phase change data
  • IR Spectrum
  • Mass spectrum (electron ionization)
  • References
  • Notes
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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

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
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Reduced pressure boiling point

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of sublimation

Enthalpy of fusion

IR Spectrum

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• LIQUID; Not specified, most likely a prism, grating, or hybrid spectrometer.; DIGITIZED BY NIST FROM HARD COPY; 4 cm^-1 resolution

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

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Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Spectrum

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References

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Freedman, Bagby, et al., 1989
Freedman, B.; Bagby, M.O.; Khoury, H., Correlation of heats of combustion with empirical formulas for fatty alcohols, J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc., 1989, 66, 595-596. [all data]

Cheshko and Shvaika, 1971
Cheshko, F.F.; Shvaika, T.N., Syntheses and Identification of Esters of Certain Mono- and Di-carboxylic Acids, Zh. Prikl. Khim., 1971, 44, 1107-16. [all data]

Paquot, Sorba, et al., 1955
Paquot, C.; Sorba, Mme.J.; Wieme, N., The Phys. Prop. of Aliphatic Esters Containing Eighteen Carbon Atoms, Ind. Chim. Belge., 1955, 20, Spec. No. 727. [all data]

Wibaut, Overhoff, et al., 1943
Wibaut, J.P.; Overhoff, J.; Jonker, E.W., On the Preparation of Some Hydrocarbons of the Mixed Aliphatic-Aromatic and Aliphatic-Alicyclic Type Containing 22 to 30 C-atoms, Recl. Trav. Chim. Pays-Bas, 1943, 62, 31. [all data]

Baker and Smyth, 1938
Baker, W.O.; Smyth, C.P., The Possibility of Molecular Rotation in the Solid Form of Cetyl Alcohol and Three Long-Chain Ethyl Esters, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1938, 60, 1229. [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]

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]

Omar, 1967
Omar, M.M., Vapour pressures, heats of sublimation, and heats of vaporisation for straight-chain ethyl esters, J. Chem. Soc., C, 1967, 2038, https://doi.org/10.1039/j39670002038 . [all data]

King and Garner, 1934
King, A.M.; Garner, W.E., The heats of crystallisation of the ethyl esters of the monobasic aliphatic acids, 1934, J. [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:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔcH°liquid	Enthalpy of combustion of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization

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