Tetrafluoromethane

• Formula: CF₄
• Molecular weight: 88.0043
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/CF4/c2-1(3,4)5 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: TXEYQDLBPFQVAA-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 75-73-0
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Carbon tetrafluoride; Methane, tetrafluoro-; Arcton 0; Carbon fluoride (CF4); Freon 14; FC 14; Perfluoromethane; CF4; Halon 14; Carbon fluoride; F 14; Halocarbon 14; R 14; UN 1982; Refrigerant 14; CFC 14; R 14 (Refrigerant); Refrigerant R 14; Methane, tetrafluo-
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Gas Phase Heat Capacity (Shomate Equation)

C_p° = A + B*t + C*t² + D*t³ + E/t²
H° − H°_298.15= A*t + B*t²/2 + C*t³/3 + D*t⁴/4 − E/t + F − H
S° = A*ln(t) + B*t + C*t²/2 + D*t³/3 − E/(2*t²) + G
    C_p = heat capacity (J/mol*K)
    H° = standard enthalpy (kJ/mol)
    S° = standard entropy (J/mol*K)
    t = temperature (K) / 1000.

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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid

Ion clustering data

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Clustering reactions

 +  = ( • )

By formula: CF₃⁺ + CF₄ = (CF₃⁺ • CF₄)

( • ) +  = ( • 2)

By formula: (CF₃⁺ • CF₄) + CF₄ = (CF₃⁺ • 2CF₄)

( • 2) +  = ( • 3)

By formula: (CF₃⁺ • 2CF₄) + CF₄ = (CF₃⁺ • 3CF₄)

( • 3) +  = ( • 4)

By formula: (CF₃⁺ • 3CF₄) + CF₄ = (CF₃⁺ • 4CF₄)

CF₃^- +  = (CF₃^- • )

By formula: CF₃^- + CF₄ = (CF₃^- • CF₄)

(CF₃^- • ) +  = (CF₃^- • 2)

By formula: (CF₃^- • CF₄) + CF₄ = (CF₃^- • 2CF₄)

(CF₃^- • 2) +  = (CF₃^- • 3)

By formula: (CF₃^- • 2CF₄) + CF₄ = (CF₃^- • 3CF₄)

(CF₃^- • 3) +  = (CF₃^- • 4)

By formula: (CF₃^- • 3CF₄) + CF₄ = (CF₃^- • 4CF₄)

CHF₄⁺ +  = (CHF₄⁺ • )

By formula: CHF₄⁺ + CF₄ = (CHF₄⁺ • CF₄)

(CHF₄⁺ • ) +  = (CHF₄⁺ • 2)

By formula: (CHF₄⁺ • CF₄) + CF₄ = (CHF₄⁺ • 2CF₄)

(CHF₄⁺ • 2) +  = (CHF₄⁺ • 3)

By formula: (CHF₄⁺ • 2CF₄) + CF₄ = (CHF₄⁺ • 3CF₄)

(CHF₄⁺ • 3) +  = (CHF₄⁺ • 4)

By formula: (CHF₄⁺ • 3CF₄) + CF₄ = (CHF₄⁺ • 4CF₄)

C₄H₉⁺ +  = (C₄H₉⁺ • )

By formula: C₄H₉⁺ + CF₄ = (C₄H₉⁺ • CF₄)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: F^- + CF₄ = (F^- • CF₄)

( • ) +  = ( • 2)

By formula: (F^- • CF₄) + CF₄ = (F^- • 2CF₄)

( • 2) +  = ( • 3)

By formula: (F^- • 2CF₄) + CF₄ = (F^- • 3CF₄)

( • 3) +  = ( • 4)

By formula: (F^- • 3CF₄) + CF₄ = (F^- • 4CF₄)

( • 4) +  = ( • 5)

By formula: (F^- • 4CF₄) + CF₄ = (F^- • 5CF₄)

Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels

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Data compiled by: Takehiko Shimanouchi

Symmetry:   T_d     Symmetry Number σ = 12

Source: Shimanouchi, 1972

Notes

References

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Chase, 1998
Chase, M.W., Jr., NIST-JANAF Themochemical Tables, Fourth Edition, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, Monograph 9, 1998, 1-1951. [all data]

Price and Sapiano, 1979
Price, S.J.W.; Sapiano, H.J., Determination of ΔH°_f298(C₆F₁₀,g) and ΔH°_f298(C₆F₁₂,g) from studies of the combustion of decafluorocyclohexene and dodecafluorocylohexene in oxygen and calculation of the resonance energy of hexafluorobenzene, Can. J. Chem., 1979, 58, 685-688. [all data]

Krech, Price, et al., 1973
Krech, M.J.; Price, S.J.W.; Yared, W.F., Determination of the heat of formation of octafluorotoluene and calculation of D[C₆F₅-F] - D[C₆F₅-CF₃], Can. J. Chem., 1973, 51, 3662-3664. [all data]

Smith and Pace, 1969
Smith, J.H.; Pace, E.L., The thermodynamic properties of carbon tetrafluoride from 12°K to its boiling point. The significance of the parameter {nu}, J. Phys. Chem., 1969, 73, 4232-4236. [all data]

Hiraoka, Nasu, et al., 1996
Hiraoka, K.; Nasu, M.; Fujimaki, S.; Ignacio, E.W.; Yamabe, S., Gas-Phase Stability and Structure of the Cluster Ions CF3+(CO)n, CF3+(N2)n, CF3+((CF4)n, and CF4H+(CF4)n, J. Phys. Chem., 1996, 100, 13, 5245, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp9530010 . [all data]

Hiraoka, Nasu, et al., 1995
Hiraoka, K.; Nasu, M.; Fujimaki, S.; Ignacio, E.W.; Yamabe, S., Weak Ion-Molecule Complexes of F-(CF4)n and CF3-(CF4)n, Chem Phys. Let., 1995, 245, 1, 14, https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(95)00980-I . [all data]

Sharma, Meza de Hojer, et al., 1985
Sharma, D.M.S.; Meza de Hojer, S.; Kebarle, P., Stabilities of halonium ions from a study of gas-phase equilibria R+ + XR' = (RXR')+, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1985, 107, 13, 3757, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00299a002 . [all data]

Shimanouchi, 1972
Shimanouchi, T., Tables of Molecular Vibrational Frequencies Consolidated Volume I, National Bureau of Standards, 1972, 1-160. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,liquid	Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid
  S°gas,1 bar	Entropy of gas at standard conditions (1 bar)
  S°liquid	Entropy of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔcH°liquid	Enthalpy of combustion of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrS°	Entropy of reaction at standard conditions

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