Acetone cyanohydrin

• Formula: C₄H₇NO
• Molecular weight: 85.1045
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H7NO/c1-4(2,6)3-5/h6H,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: MWFMGBPGAXYFAR-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 75-86-5
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: α-Hydroxyisobutyronitrile; Propanenitrile, 2-hydroxy-2-methyl-; Lactonitrile, 2-methyl-; 2-Cyano-2-propanol; 2-Hydroxy-2-methylpropionitrile; 2-Hydroxyisobutyronitrile; 2-Methyllactonitrile; 2-Propanone, cyanohydrin; 2-Cyanopropan-2-ol; Acetoncianhidrinei; Acetoncianidrina; Acetoncyaanhydrine; Acetoncyanhydrin; Acetone cyanhydrin; Acetonecyanhydrine; Acetonkyanhydrin; Cyanhydrine d'acetone; USAF RH-8; 2-Cyano-2-hydroxypropane; Rcra waste number P069; UN 1541; 2-Hydroxy-2-methylpropanenitrile; NSC 131093
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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Phase change data

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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
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

Reduced pressure boiling point

Enthalpy of vaporization

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled by: Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard

Ionization energy determinations

References

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Gubareva, Igolinskaya, et al., 1987
Gubareva, A.I.; Igolinskaya, M.A.; Beregovykh, V.V.; Gerasimov, P.A., Study of the transport and energetic properties of acetone cyanohydrin (2-hydroxyisobutyronitrile), J. Appl. Chem. USSR, 1987, 60, 668-670. [all data]

Anonymous, 1954
Anonymous, R., , Am. Pet. Inst. Res. Proj. 45, Tech. Rep. 13, Ohio State Univ., 1954. [all data]

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]

Stephenson and Malanowski, 1987
Stephenson, Richard M.; Malanowski, Stanislaw, Handbook of the Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds, 1987, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3173-2 . [all data]

Koppel, Molder, et al., 1983
Koppel, I.A.; Molder, U.H.; Pikver, R.J., Photoelectron spectra of molecules. I. Alcohols, Org. React. Tartu, 1983, 20, 45. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔcH°liquid	Enthalpy of combustion of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°liquid	Enthalpy of formation of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization

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