2-Mercaptopropanoic acid

• Formula: C₃H₆O₂S
• Molecular weight: 106.144
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C3H6O2S/c1-2(6)3(4)5/h2,6H,1H3,(H,4,5) Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: PMNLUUOXGOOLSP-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 79-42-5
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• Other names: Thiolactic acid; 2-Mercaptopropionic acid; Propanoic acid, 2-mercapto-; Propionic acid, 2-mercapto-; α-Mercaptopropanoic acid; α-Mercaptopropionic acid; 2-Thiolactic acid; UN 2936; 2-Sulfanylpropanoic acid
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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

Reduced pressure boiling point

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.

Huffman and Ellis, 1935
Huffman, H.M.; Ellis, E.L., Thermal data: III the heat capacities, entropies and free energies of four organic compounds containing sulfur, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1935, 57, 46-8. [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]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature

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