Naphthalene, 2-methyl-

• Formula: C₁₁H₁₀
• Molecular weight: 142.1971
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C11H10/c1-9-6-7-10-4-2-3-5-11(10)8-9/h2-8H,1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: QIMMUPPBPVKWKM-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 91-57-6
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• Other names: β-Methylnaphthalene; 2-Methylnaphthalene; 2-methyInaphthalene; Methyl-2-naphthalene
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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
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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]

Cooper, Crowne, et al., 1967
Cooper, A.R.; Crowne, C.W.P.; Farrell, P.G., Gas-Liquid Chromatographic Studies of Electron-Donor-Acceptor Systems, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1967, 63, 447. [all data]

Anderson, Smith, et al., 1953
Anderson, D.G.; Smith, J.C.; Rallings, R.J., J. Chem. Soc., 1953, 1953, 443. [all data]

Anonymous, 1952
Anonymous, R., , Physical Properties of Chemical Substances, Dow Chemical Co., 1952. [all data]

Kinney and Pincus, 1951
Kinney, C.R.; Pincus, I., Catalytic Air Oxidation of Higher Aromatics to Phthalic Anhydride, Ind. Eng. Chem., 1951, 43, 2880. [all data]

Bailey, Pickering, et al., 1949
Bailey, A.S.; Pickering, G.B.; Smith, J.C., Alkylnaphthalenes: III the n-butyl, amyl, and hexylnaphthalenes, J. Inst. Pet., 1949, 35, 103-17. [all data]

Othmer, Savitt, et al., 1949
Othmer, D.F.; Savitt, S.A.; Krasner, A.; Goldberg, A.M.; Markowitz, D., Composition of vapors from boiling binary solutions. Systems with m- or p-cresol as one component., Ind. Eng. Chem., 1949, 41, 572. [all data]

Anderson, 1948
Anderson, J.A., Determination of Naphthalene, Methylnaphthalenes, and Total Naphthalenes in Admixture with Other Hydrocarbons by Ultraviolet Absorption, Proc. Am. Pet. Inst., Sect. 3, 1948, 28, 81-4. [all data]

Cleaves, Carver, et al., 1948
Cleaves, A.P.; Carver, M.S.; Hibbard, R.R., , Natl. Advis. Comm. Aeronaut., 1948. [all data]

Cullinane and Chard, 1948
Cullinane, N.M.; Chard, S.J., Action of Methanol on Naphthalene in the Presence of Catalysts of the Auliman-silica Type. Formation of 2-Methylnaphthalene, J. Chem. Soc., 1948, 1948, 804. [all data]

Morrell, Pickering, et al., 1948
Morrell, S.H.; Pickering, G.B.; Smith, J.C., Alkylnaphthalenes II. The Methyl-, Ethyl-, and Propylnaphthalenes, J. Inst. Pet., 1948, 34, 677. [all data]

Lecat, 1947
Lecat, M., Some azeotropes of which one constituant is heterocyclic nitrogen, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ser. 1, 1947, 61, 73. [all data]

Rossini and Mair, 1941
Rossini, F.D.; Mair, B.J., Proc., Am. Pet. Inst., Sect. 3, 1941, 22, 7. [all data]

Mair and Streiff, 1940
Mair, B.J.; Streiff, A.J., Separation of the aromatic hydrocarbons, and the isolation of n-dodecane, naphthalene, 1-methylnaphthalene, and 2-methylnaphthalene from the kerosene fraction of petroleum, J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. (U. S.), 1940, 24, 395-414. [all data]

Roux, 1887
Roux, L., Ann. Chim. Phys., 1887, 12, 289. [all data]

Schulze, 1884
Schulze, K.E., Chem. Ber., 1884, 17, 842. [all data]

Notes

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