Propane

• Formula: C₃H₈
• Molecular weight: 44.0956
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C3H8/c1-3-2/h3H2,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: ATUOYWHBWRKTHZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 74-98-6
• Chemical structure:
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• Isotopologues:
  • Propane-2-¹³c
  • Propane-d8
  • CH3CD2CH3
• Other names: n-Propane; Dimethylmethane; Freon 290; Liquefied petroleum gas; LPG; Propyl hydride; R 290; C3H8; UN 1978; A-108; Hydrocarbon propellant A-108; HC 290
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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

References

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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]

Majer and Svoboda, 1985
Majer, V.; Svoboda, V., Enthalpies of Vaporization of Organic Compounds: A Critical Review and Data Compilation, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1985, 300. [all data]

Goodwin and Haynes, 1982
Goodwin, R.D.; Haynes, W.M., Thermophysical Properties of Propane from 85 to 700 K at Pressures to 70 MPa, NBS Monogr. (U. S.) No. 170, 249 pp., 1982. [all data]

Goodwin, 1977
Goodwin, R.D., , Natl. Bur. Stand., [Tech. Rep.] NBSIR (U. S.) 77-860, 1977. [all data]

Streng, 1971
Streng, A.G., Miscibility and Compatibility of Some Liquid and Solidified Gases at Low Temperature, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1971, 16, 357. [all data]

Gilmour, Zwicker, et al., 1967
Gilmour, J.B.; Zwicker, J.O.; Katz, J.; Scott, R.L., Fluorocarbon Solutions at Low Temperatures V. The Liquid Mixtures C2H6 + C2F6m, C3H8 + C2F6, CH4 + C3F8, C2H6 + C3F8, C3H8 + C3F8, n-C4H10 + C3F8, i-C4H10 + C3F8, C3H8 + n-C4F10, n-C6H14 + n-C4F10, n, J. Phys. Chem., 1967, 71, 3259. [all data]

Klipping and Schmidt, 1965
Klipping, G.; Schmidt, F., Temperature Measurement with the Vapor Pressure Thermometer, Kaeltetechnik, 1965, 17, 382-4. [all data]

Partington and Danby, 1948
Partington, R.G.; Danby, C.J., The thermal decomposition of n-hexane, J. Chem. Soc., 1948, 1948, 2226-32. [all data]

Rossini, 1948
Rossini, F.D., Pure compounds from petroleum purification and purity of hydrocarbons, Anal. Chem., 1948, 20, 110-21. [all data]

Hooper, 1947
Hooper, J.H.D., The analysis of hydrocarbon gases by low temperature distillation, Analyst (London), 1947, 72, 513-20. [all data]

Grosse, Mavity, et al., 1946
Grosse, A.V.; Mavity, J.M.; Mattox, W.J., Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Polycyclic Naphthenes, Ind. Eng. Chem., 1946, 38, 1041. [all data]

Dailey and Felsing, 1943
Dailey, B.P.; Felsing, W.A., The heat capacities at higher temperatures of ethane and propane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1943, 65, 42. [all data]

Rossini, 1943
Rossini, F.D., Pet. Eng., 1943, 14, 5, 41-2. [all data]

Ruhemann, 1939
Ruhemann, M., Two-phase equilibrium in the binary and ternary systems I. The system methane-ethane, Proc. R. Soc. London, A, 1939, 171, 121. [all data]

Harteck and Edse, 1938
Harteck, P.; Edse, R., Vapor-pressure Measurement of Propane, Z. Phys. Chem., Abt. A, 1938, 182, 220. [all data]

Grosse, 1937
Grosse, A.V., Refractive Indices at Low Temperatures, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1937, 59, 2739-41. [all data]

Hass, McBee, et al., 1936
Hass, E.B.; McBee, E.T.; Hinds, G.E.; Glusenkamp, E.W., Synthesis of cyclopropane, Ind. Eng. Chem., 1936, 28, 1178. [all data]

Hicks-Brunn and Bruun, 1936
Hicks-Brunn, M.M.; Bruun, J.H., The Freezing and Boiling Point of Propane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1936, 58, 810-2. [all data]

McMillan, 1936
McMillan, W.A., I analytical fractionation of hydrocarbon gases, J. Inst. Pet. Technol., 1936, 22, 616-45. [all data]

Davis, Thomson, et al., 1932
Davis, H.S.; Thomson, G.; Crandall, G.S., The role of liquid stationary films in batch absorption of gases: III rates of hydrogen absorption and relative rates of catalytic hydrogenation in alcohol, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1932, 54, 2340. [all data]

Maass and Wright, 1921
Maass, O.; Wright, C.H., SOME PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF HYDROCARBONS CONTAINING TWO AND THREE CARBON ATOMS., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1921, 43, 5, 1098-1111, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01438a013 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil

  Boiling point

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