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
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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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Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions (nominally 298.15 K, 1 atm.)

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

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]

Walker, 1972
Walker, L.C., The enthalpy of decomposition of CF₃NF₂(g) to CF₄(g), N₂(g), and F₂(g), J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1972, 4, 219-223. [all data]

Greenberg and Hubbard, 1968
Greenberg, E.; Hubbard, W.N., Fluorine bomb calorimetry. XXIII. The enthalpy of formation of carbon tetrafluoride, J. Phys. Chem., 1968, 72, 222-227. [all data]

Domalski and Armstrong, 1967
Domalski, E.S.; Armstrong, G.T., The heats of combustion of polytetrafluoroethylene (teflon) and graphite in elemental fluorine, J. Res. NBS, 1967, 71, 105-118. [all data]

Wood, Lagow, et al., 1967
Wood, J.L.; Lagow, R.J.; Margrave, J.L., The heat of combustion of teflon in fluoride. A check on the heat of formation of carbon tetrafluoride, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1967, 12, 255-256. [all data]

Baibuz, 1961
Baibuz, V.F., Explosion method and heat of formation of CF₄, CFCl, CFCl₃, and CCl₄, Dokl. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.), 1961, 140, 786-788, In original 1358. [all data]

Vorob'ev and Skuratov, 1960
Vorob'ev, A.F.; Skuratov, S.M., Standard enthalpies of formation of CF₄, Zh. Neorg. Khim., 1960, 5, 1398-1401. [all data]

Neugebauer and Margrave, 1957
Neugebauer, C.A.; Margrave, J.L., Heats of formation of the fluoromethanes and fluoroethylenes, Tech. Rept., 1957, 1-45. [all data]

Good, Scott, et al., 1956
Good, W.D.; Scott, D.W.; Waddington, G., Combustion calorimetry of organic fluorine compounds by a rotating-bomb method, J. Phys. Chem., 1956, 60, 1080-1089. [all data]

Scott, Good, et al., 1955
Scott, D.W.; Good, W.D.; Waddington, G., Heat of formation of tetrafluoromethane from combustion calorimetry of polytetrafluoroethylene, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1955, 77, 245-246. [all data]

Jessup, McCoskey, et al., 1955
Jessup, R.S.; McCoskey, R.E.; Nelson, R.A., The heat of formation of tetrafluoromethane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1955, 77, 244-245. [all data]

Kirkbride and Davidson, 1954
Kirkbride, F.W.; Davidson, F.G., Heats of formation of gaseous fluoro- and fluorochloro-carbons, Nature (London), 1954, 174, 79-80. [all data]

Wartenberg and Schutte, 1935
Wartenberg, V.H.; Schutte, R., Die Bildungswarme von SiF₄, CF₄ und SiC, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem., 1935, 211, 222-226. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  ΔfH°gas

  Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions

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