1,6-Hexanediol

• Formula: C₆H₁₄O₂
• Molecular weight: 118.1742
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C6H14O2/c7-5-3-1-2-4-6-8/h7-8H,1-6H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: XXMIOPMDWAUFGU-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 629-11-8
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• Other names: α,ω-Hexanediol; Hexamethylene glycol; Hexamethylenediol; 1,6-Dihydroxyhexane; Hexanediol-(1,6); Hexane-1,6-diol; HDO
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References

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Steele, Chirico, et al., 1991
Steele, W.V.; Chirico, R.D.; Nguyen, A.; Hossenlopp, I.A.; Smith, N.K., DIPPR Project 871: determination of ideal-gas enthalpies of formation for key compounds: the 1989 project results in DIPPR Data Ser. 1, 1991. [all data]

Lantz and Weiss, 1965
Lantz, A.; Weiss, F., , 1965. [all data]

Mellan, 1962
Mellan, I., Polyhydric Alcohols, Spartan Books: Washington, DC, 1962. [all data]

Oka, 1962
Oka, S., Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 1962, 35, 562. [all data]

Zweifel, Nagase, et al., 1962
Zweifel, G.; Nagase, K.; Brown, H.C., Hydroboration XIII. THe Hydroboration of Dienes with Disiamylborane. A Convenient Procedure for the Conversion of Selected Dienes into Unsaturated Alcohols, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1962, 84, 190. [all data]

Anonymous, 1958
Anonymous, P., , 1958. [all data]

Adkins and Billica, 1948
Adkins, H.; Billica, H.R., The Hydrogenation of Esters to Alcohols at 15 - 150 deg, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1948, 70, 3121-5. [all data]

Smyth and Walls, 1931
Smyth, C.P.; Walls, W.S., Electric moment and molecular structure: IV the glycols, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1931, 53, 2115-22. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point

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