Perfluoropropane

• Formula: C₃F₈
• Molecular weight: 188.0193
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C3F8/c4-1(5,2(6,7)8)3(9,10)11 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: QYSGYZVSCZSLHT-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 76-19-7
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: Propane, octafluoro-; Freon 218; Genetron 218; Octafluoropropane; C3F8; UN 2424; 1,1,1,2,2,3,3,3-Octafluoropropane; R 218; Perflutren; Propane, 1,1,1,2,2,3,3,3-octafluoro-; Definity; DMP 115; FC 218; FC 218 (refrigerant); HFC 218; MRX 115; PFC 218
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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
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
CAL - James S. Chickos, William E. Acree, Jr., Joel F. Liebman, Students of Chem 202 (Introduction to the Literature of Chemistry), University of Missouri -- St. Louis

Enthalpy of vaporization

Entropy of vaporization

Antoine Equation Parameters

log₁₀(P) = A − (B / (T + C))
    P = vapor pressure (bar)
    T = temperature (K)

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Enthalpy of fusion

Entropy of fusion

Enthalpy of phase transition

Entropy of phase transition

References

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PCR Inc., 1990
PCR Inc., Research Chemicals Catalog 1990-1991, PCR Inc., Gainesville, FL, 1990, 1. [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]

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]

Crowder, Taylor, et al., 1967
Crowder, G.A.; Taylor, Z.L.; Reed, T.M.; Young, J.A., Vapor Pressures and Triple Point Temp. for Several Pure Fluorocarbons fluorocarbons, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1967, 12, 481. [all data]

Pace and Plaush, 1967
Pace, E.L.; Plaush, A.C., Thermodynamic properties of octafluoropropane from 14K to its normal boiling point. An estimate of the barrier to internal rotation from the entropy and heat capacity of the gas, J. Chem. Phys., 1967, 47, 38-43. [all data]

Leu and Robinson, 1992
Leu, A.D.; Robinson, D.B., High-pressure vapor-liquid equilibrium phase properties of the octafluoropropane (K-218)-chlorodifluoromethane (Freon-22) binary system, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1992, 37, 7-10. [all data]

Mousa, Kay, et al., 1972
Mousa, A.H.N.; Kay, W.B.; Kreglewski, A., The critical constants of binary mixtures of certain perfluoro-compounds with alkanes, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1972, 4, 301-11. [all data]

Brown, 1963
Brown, J.A., Physical Properties of Perfluoropropane, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1963, 8, 106. [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]

Pace, 1967
Pace, E.L., Thermodynamic Properties of Octafluoropropane from 14°K to Its Normal Boiling Point. An Estimate of the Barrier to Internal Rotation from the Entropy and Heat Capacity of the Gas, J. Chem. Phys., 1967, 47, 1, 38, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1711886 . [all data]

Brown, 1963, 2
Brown, James A., Physical Properties of Perfluoropropane., J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1963, 8, 1, 106-108, https://doi.org/10.1021/je60016a032 . [all data]

Domalski and Hearing, 1996
Domalski, Eugene S.; Hearing, Elizabeth D., Heat Capacities and Entropies of Organic Compounds in the Condensed Phase. Volume III, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1996, 25, 1, 1, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.555985 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Pc	Critical pressure
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tc	Critical temperature
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  ΔHtrs	Enthalpy of phase transition
  ΔStrs	Entropy of phase transition
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔfusS	Entropy of fusion
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapS	Entropy of vaporization
  ρc	Critical density

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