Methylamine

• Formula: CH₅N
• Molecular weight: 31.0571
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/CH5N/c1-2/h2H2,1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: BAVYZALUXZFZLV-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 74-89-5
• Chemical structure:
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• Isotopologues:
  • methan-d3-amine
• Other names: Methanamine; Aminomethane; Carbinamine; Monomethylamine; CH3NH2; Mercurialin; Methylaminen; Metilamine; Metyloamina; UN 1061; MMA
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  • IR Spectrum
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  • Gas Chromatography
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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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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

IR Spectrum

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Gas Phase Spectrum

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Additional Data

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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UV/Visible spectrum

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Data compiled by: Victor Talrose, Eugeny B. Stern, Antonina A. Goncharova, Natalia A. Messineva, Natalia V. Trusova, Margarita V. Efimkina

Spectrum

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Gas Chromatography

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Kovats' RI, non-polar column, isothermal

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Normal alkane RI, non-polar column, custom temperature program

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References

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Cox and Pilcher, 1970
Cox, J.D.; Pilcher, G., Thermochemistry of Organic and Organometallic Compounds, Academic Press, New York, 1970, 1-636. [all data]

Aston, Siller, et al., 1937
Aston, J.G.; Siller, C.W.; Messerly, G.H., Heat capacities and entropies of organic compounds. III. Methylamine from 11.5°K. to the boiling point. Heat of vaporization and vapor pressure. The entropy from molecular data, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1937, 59, 1743-17. [all data]

Lemoult, 1907
Lemoult, M.P., Recherches theoriques et experimentales sur les chaleurs de combustion et de formation des composes organiques, Ann. Chim. Phys., 1907, 12, 395-432. [all data]

Muller, 1910
Muller, J.-A., Sur les chaleurs de combustion et les poids specifiques des methylamines, Ann. Chim. Phys., 1910, 20, 116-130. [all data]

Aston, Siller, et al., 1937, 2
Aston, J.G.; Siller, C.W.; Messerly, G.H., Heat capacities and entropies of organic compounds. III. Methylamine from 12K to the boiling point. Heat of vaporization and vapor pressure. The entropy from molecular data, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1937, 59, 1743-1751. [all data]

Tannenbaum, Coffin, et al., 1953
Tannenbaum, E.; Coffin, E.M.; Harrison, A.J., The far ultraviolet absorption spectra of simple alkyl amines, J. Chem. Phys., 1953, 21, 2, 311-318. [all data]

Anderson, Jurel, et al., 1973
Anderson, A.; Jurel, S.; Shymanska, M.; Golender, L., Gas-liquid chromatography of some aliphatic and heterocyclic mono- and pollyfunctional amines. VII. Retention indices of amines in some polar and unpolar stationary phases, Latv. PSR Zinat. Akad. Vestis Kim. Ser., 1973, 1, 51-63. [all data]

Chen and Feng, 2007
Chen, Y.; Feng, C., QSPR study on gas chromatography retention index of some organic pollutants, Comput. Appl. Chem. (China), 2007, 24, 10, 1404-1408. [all data]

Zenkevich and Chupalov, 1996
Zenkevich, I.G.; Chupalov, A.A., New Possibilities of Chromato Mass Pectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds Using Increments of Gas Chromatographic Retention Indices of Molecular Structural Fragments, Zh. Org. Khim. (Rus.), 1996, 32, 5, 656-666. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,liquid	Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid
  S°liquid	Entropy of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔcH°liquid	Enthalpy of combustion of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°liquid	Enthalpy of formation of liquid at standard conditions

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