Isoprene

• Formula: C₅H₈
• Molecular weight: 68.1170
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C5H8/c1-4-5(2)3/h4H,1-2H2,3H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: RRHGJUQNOFWUDK-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 78-79-5
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• Other names: 1,3-Butadiene, 2-methyl-; β-Methylbivinyl; Isopentadiene; 2-Methyl-1,3-butadiene; 2-Methylbutadiene; CH2=C(CH3)CH=CH2; 2-Methylbuta-1,3-diene; 3-Methyl-1,3-butadiene; NSC 9237
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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

References

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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]

Usov, Skvortsova, et al., 1967
Usov, Yu.N.; Skvortsova, Y.V.; Kuvshinova, N.I.; Yelovatskaya, L.A.; Alferova, G.V., Dehydration of Isopentenes and Isopentane on An Alumina-Chromium Oxide -Potassium Oxide Catalyst, Neftekhimiya, 1967, 7, 341-8. [all data]

Gorin, Galkina, et al., 1966
Gorin, Yu.A.; Galkina, G.I.; Makashina, A.N.; Andreeva, N.P., Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Normal Pentenes and Isopentenes and of Their Mixtures, Diluted with Steam, Zh. Prikl. Khim., 1966, 39, 1577-83. [all data]

Le Fevre, Sundaram, et al., 1963
Le Fevre, R.J.W.; Sundaram, A.; Pierens, R.K., Molecular Polarisability: the Anisotropy of the Carbon-Oxygen Link, J. Chem. Soc., 1963, 1963, 479-488. [all data]

Blomquist and Verdol, 1955
Blomquist, A.T.; Verdol, J.A., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1955, 77, 78. [all data]

Janz and Wait, 1954
Janz, G.J.; Wait, S.C., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1954, 76, 6377. [all data]

Gilbert and Williams, 1952
Gilbert, R.D.; Williams, L.W., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1952, 74, 4114. [all data]

Foehr and Fenske, 1949
Foehr, E.G.; Fenske, M.R., Magneto-optic Rotation of Hydrocarbons, Ind. Eng. Chem., 1949, 41, 1956. [all data]

Lecat, 1947
Lecat, M., Orthobaric Azeotropes of Sulfides, Bull. Cl. Sci., Acad. R. Belg., 1947, 33, 160-82. [all data]

Bateman and Koch, 1944
Bateman, L.; Koch, H.P., Structure of Polyisoprene III. Ultraviolet Absorption Spectra, J. Chem. Soc., 1944, 1944, 600-6. [all data]

Bekkedahl, Wood, et al., 1936
Bekkedahl, N.; Wood, L.A.; Wojciechowski, M., Some physical properties of isoprene., J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. (U. S.), 1936, 17, 883. [all data]

Bourguel and Piaux, 1932
Bourguel, M.; Piaux, L., Raman Effect in Chemistry. Allenic Hydrocarbons. Study and Preparation of 1,1-Dimethylallene, Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr., 1932, 51, 1041. [all data]

Heisig, 1931
Heisig, G.B., The action of radon on some unsaturated hydrocarbons, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1931, 53, 3245-3. [all data]

Lecat, 1927
Lecat, M., New binary azeotropes: 7th list, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ser. B, 1927, 47, 108-14. [all data]

Harries, 1911
Harries, C.D., Hydrocarbons of the Butane Series and Preparation of Artificial Caoutchoue from Them, Justus Liebigs Ann. Chem., 1911, 383, 157. [all data]

Thorpe and Jones, 1893
Thorpe, T.E.; Jones, L.M., The thermal expansion and specific volumes of certain paraffins and paraffin derivatives, J. Chem. Soc., Trans., 1893, 63, 273-92. [all data]

Notes

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