Benzonitrile, 4-methoxy-

• Formula: C₈H₇NO
• Molecular weight: 133.1473
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C8H7NO/c1-10-8-4-2-7(6-9)3-5-8/h2-5H,1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: XDJAAZYHCCRJOK-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 874-90-8
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: p-Anisonitrile; p-Anisylnitrile; p-Cyanoanisole; p-Methoxybenzonitrile; p-Methoxyphenyl cyanide; 4-Cyanoanisole; 4-Methoxybenzonitrile; Anisonitrile; 4-Methoxybenzonitril; NSC 3777; NSC 71539; 1-Cyano-4-methoxybenzene
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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

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Spectrum

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Gas Chromatography

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References

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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]

Curran and Estok, 1950
Curran, B.C.; Estok, G.K., The Stabilization of Highly Polar Resonacne Structures by Hydrogen Bonding I. Electric Moments, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1950, 72, 4575. [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]

Modelli and Distefano, 1981
Modelli, A.; Distefano, G., L. C. B. O.: An easy method to predict valence ionization energies. Application to substituted benzenes, Z. Naturforsch. A:, 1981, 36, 1344. [all data]

Cooks, Bertrand, et al., 1973
Cooks, R.G.; Bertrand, M.; Beynon, J.H.; Rennekamp, M.E.; Setser, D.W., Energy partitioning data as an ion structure probe. Substituted anisoles, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1973, 95, 1732. [all data]

Buchs, 1970
Buchs, A., Etude par spectrometrie de masse de l'ionisation de benzonitriles, de phenylacetonitriles et de N,N-dimethylanilines substitues, Helv. Chim. Acta, 1970, 53, 2026. [all data]

Brown, 1970
Brown, P., Kinetic studies in mass spectrometry. VIII. Competing [M-CH₃] and [M-CH₂O] reactions in substituted anisoles. Approximate activation energies from ionization appearance potentials, Org. Mass Spectrom., 1970, 4, 519. [all data]

Tait, Shannon, et al., 1962
Tait, J.M.S.; Shannon, T.W.; Harrison, A.G., The structure of substituted C₇ ions from benzyl derivatives at the appearance potential threshold, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1962, 84, 4. [all data]

Chang, Sheng, et al., 1989
Chang, L.P.; Sheng, L.S.; Yang, M.Z.; An, D.K., Retention index of essential oil in temperature-programmed capillary column gas chromatography, Acta Pharm. Sin., 1989, 24, 11, 847-852. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point

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