1,2-Benzenediamine

• Formula: C₆H₈N₂
• Molecular weight: 108.1411
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C6H8N2/c7-5-3-1-2-4-6(5)8/h1-4H,7-8H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: GEYOCULIXLDCMW-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 95-54-5
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: o-Phenylenediamine; o-Benzenediamine; o-Diaminobenzene; C.I. Oxidation Base 16; C.I. 76010; Orthamine; 1,2-Diaminobenzene; 1,2-Phenylenediamine; 2-Aminoaniline; o-Aminoaniline; EK 1700; OPDA; PODA; SQ 15500; o-Fenylendiamin; 1,2-Fenylendiamin; NSC 5354; IK 3
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  • IR Spectrum
  • Mass spectrum (electron ionization)
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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Constant pressure heat capacity of solid

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
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Enthalpy of fusion

Entropy of fusion

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
HL - Edward P. Hunter and Sharon G. Lias

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

View reactions leading to C₆H₈N₂⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Ionization energy determinations

IR Spectrum

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Data compiled by: NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center, William E. Wallace, director

Gas Phase Spectrum

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Additional Data

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Spectrum

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UV/Visible spectrum

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Data compiled by: Victor Talrose, Alexander N. Yermakov, Alexy A. Usov, Antonina A. Goncharova, Axlexander N. Leskin, Natalia A. Messineva, Natalia V. Trusova, Margarita V. Efimkina

Spectrum

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References

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Contineanu, Wagner, et al., 1982
Contineanu, I.; Wagner, L.; Stanescu, L.; Marchidan, D.I., Combustion and formation enthalpies of o-phenylenediamine, urea and 2-benzimidazolone, Rev. Roum. Chim., 1982, 27, 205-209. [all data]

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Kunyavskaya, S.G.; Karyakin, N.V.; Krylova, G.P.; Chernova, V.I.; Rabinovich, I.B., Heat capacity and thermodynamic properties of iosmeric phenylenediamines, Tr. Khim. Khim. Tekhnol., 1973, 58-59. [all data]

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Karyakin, N.V.; Rabinovich, I.B.; Sokolov, L.B., Thermodynamics of the synthesis of isomeric poly(phenylenephthalamides), Vysokomol. Soedin. Ser. B, 1978, 20, 662-666. [all data]

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Richards and Mathews, 1908
Richards, T.W.; Mathews, J.H., The Relation Between Compressibility, Surface Tension, and Other Properties of Material, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1908, 30, 8-13. [all data]

Perkin, 1896
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Bret-Dibat and Lichanot, 1989, 2
Bret-Dibat, P.; Lichanot, A., Proprietes thermodynamiques des isomeres de position de benzenes disubstitues en phase condensee, Thermochim. Acta, 1989, 147, 2, 261, https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-6031(89)85181-0 . [all data]

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Sabbah, Raphaël; Perez, Laurence, Energétique des liaisons inter- et intramoléculaires dans les trois isomères du benzènediamine, Can. J. Chem., 1997, 75, 4, 357-364, https://doi.org/10.1139/v97-041 . [all data]

Lee, Chang, et al., 1997
Lee, Ming-Jer; Chang, Yao-Kun; Lin, Ho-mu; Chen, Chang-Hsin, Solid-Liquid Equilibria for 4-Methoxyphenol with Catechol, Ethylenediamine, or Piperazine, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1997, 42, 2, 349-352, https://doi.org/10.1021/je960201b . [all data]

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Hunter, E.P.; Lias, S.G., Evaluated Gas Phase Basicities and Proton Affinities of Molecules: An Update, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1998, 27, 3, 413-656, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.556018 . [all data]

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Palmer, M.H.; Moyes, W.; Spiers, M.; Ridyard, J.N.A., The electronic structure of substituted benzenes; a study of aniline, the toluidines, phenylenediamines and fluoroanilines by photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio calculations, J. Mol. Struct., 1979, 53, 235. [all data]

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Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,solid	Constant pressure heat capacity of solid
  S°solid,1 bar	Entropy of solid at standard conditions (1 bar)
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔcH°solid	Enthalpy of combustion of solid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°solid	Enthalpy of formation of solid at standard conditions
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔfusS	Entropy of fusion
  ΔsubH°	Enthalpy of sublimation at standard conditions

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