Formic acid, 1,1-dimethylethyl ester

• Formula: C₅H₁₀O₂
• Molecular weight: 102.1317
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C5H10O2/c1-5(2,3)7-4-6/h4H,1-3H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: RUPAXCPQAAOIPB-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 762-75-4
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: Formic acid, tert-butyl ester; tert-Butyl Formate
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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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
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DRB - Donald R. Burgess, Jr.

Gas Chromatography

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Kovats' RI, non-polar column, isothermal

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References

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Guthrie, 1977
Guthrie, J.P., Cyclization of glycol monoesters to give hemiorthoesters: a test of the thermochemical method for determining free energies of tetrahedral intermediates, Can. J. Chem., 1977, 55, 3562-3574. [all data]

Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., 1990
Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals, Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Milwaukee WI, 1990, 1. [all data]

Young and Pare, 1958
Young, D.; Pare, E., J. Org. Chem., 1958, 23, 1772. [all data]

Barkenbus, Naff, et al., 1954
Barkenbus, C.; Naff, M.B.; Rapp, K.E., The Preparation and Properties of Some tert-Alkyl Formates, J. Org. Chem., 1954, 19, 1316. [all data]

Wehrli and Kováts, 1959
Wehrli, A.; Kováts, E., Gas-chromatographische Charakterisierung ogranischer Verbindungen. Teil 3: Berechnung der Retentionsindices aliphatischer, alicyclischer und aromatischer Verbindungen, Helv. Chim. Acta, 1959, 7, 7, 2709-2736, https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.19590420745 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔfH°liquid	Enthalpy of formation of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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