Furfural

• Formula: C₅H₄O₂
• Molecular weight: 96.0841
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C5H4O2/c6-4-5-2-1-3-7-5/h1-4H Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: HYBBIBNJHNGZAN-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 98-01-1
• Chemical structure:
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• Species with the same structure:
  • 2-Furancarbaldehyde
• Other names: 2-Furancarboxaldehyde; 2-Furaldehyde; α-Furole; Artificial ant oil; Fural; Furaldehyde; Furale; Furancarbonal; Furfuraldehyde; Furfurole; Furfurylaldehyde; Furole; Pyromucic aldehyde; 2-Formylfuran; 2-Furanaldehyde; 2-Furancarbonal; 2-Furfural; 2-Furfuraldehyde; 2-Furylaldehyde; Furol; 2-Furylmethanal; Artificial oil of ants; Furfurale; Furfurol; NCI-C56177; 2-Furil-metanale; 2-Furankarbaldehyd; Rcra waste number U125; 2-Furylcarboxaldehyde; Qo furfural; Furan-2-aldehyde; Furan-2-carbaldehyde; NSC 8841; 2-furancarboxyaldehyde; furfural (2-furancarboxaldehyde); 2-Furancarboxaldehyde (furfural); furancarboxaldehyde (furfural)
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  • IR Spectrum
  • Mass spectrum (electron ionization)
  • UV/Visible spectrum
  • References
  • Notes
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
DRB - Donald R. Burgess, Jr.
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
GT - Glushko Thermocenter, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Constant pressure heat capacity of gas

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

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Individual Reactions

 +  =  + 

By formula: C₁₁H₁₀N₂O + H₂O = C₆H₈N₂ + C₅H₄O₂

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
L - Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman
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

IR Spectrum

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• LIQUID (NEAT); PERKIN-ELMER 521 (GRATING); DIGITIZED BY NIST FROM HARD COPY (FROM TWO SEGMENTS); 4 cm^-1 resolution
• SOLUTION (10% IN CCl4 FOR 4000-1330 CM^-1, 10% IN CS2 FOR 1330-600 CM^-1); BECKMAN IR-7 (GRATING); DIGITIZED BY NIST FROM HARD COPY (FROM TWO SEGMENTS); 4 cm^-1 resolution
• VAPOR (5 MICROLITER AT 150 C); PERKIN-ELMER 180; DIGITIZED BY NIST FROM HARD COPY (FROM TWO SEGMENTS); 2-3 CM^-1 cm^-1 resolution

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Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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UV/Visible spectrum

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Data compiled by: Victor Talrose, Eugeny B. Stern, Antonina A. Goncharova, Natalia A. Messineva, Natalia V. Trusova, Margarita V. Efimkina

Spectrum

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References

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Avramescu and Isagescu, 1978
Avramescu, F.; Isagescu, D.A., Heats of combustion of mono- and difurfurylidene acetone, Rev. Roum. Chim., 1978, 23, 655-659. [all data]

Kudchadker and Kudchadker, 1975
Kudchadker, S.A.; Kudchadker, A.P., Thermodynamic properties of oxygen compounds. III. Benzaldehyde and furfural (2-furaldehyde), Ber. Bunsenges. Phys. Chem., 1975, 12, 432-437. [all data]

Miller, 1936
Miller, P., The free energy of furfural and some of its derivatives, Iowa State Coll. J. Sci., 1936, 10, 91-93. [all data]

Landrieu, Baylocq, et al., 1929
Landrieu, P.; Baylocq, F.; Johnson, J.R., Etude thermochimique dans la serie furanique, Bull. Soc. Chim. France, 1929, 45, 36-49. [all data]

Kudchadker S.A., 1975
Kudchadker S.A., Thermodynamic properties of oxygen compounds. III. Benzaldehyde and furfural (2-furaldehyde), Thermochim. Acta, 1975, 12, 432-437. [all data]

Landrieu, 1905
Landrieu, M.Ph., Thermochimie. - Thermochimie des hydrazones, Compt. Rend., 1905, 141, 358-361. [all data]

Klapstein, MacPherson, et al., 1990
Klapstein, D.; MacPherson, C.D.; O'Brien, R.T., The photoelectron spectra and electronic structure of 2-carbonyl furans, Can. J. Chem., 1990, 68, 747. [all data]

Linda, Marino, et al., 1971
Linda, P.; Marino, G.; Pignataro, S., A comparison of sensitivities to substituent effects of five- membered heteroaromatic rings in gas phase ionization, J. Chem. Soc. B, 1971, 1585. [all data]

Dewar and Worley, 1969
Dewar, M.J.S.; Worley, S.D., Photoelectron spectra of molecules. I. Ionization potentials of some organic molecules and their interpretation, J. Chem. Phys., 1969, 50, 654. [all data]

Watanabe, Nakayama, et al., 1962
Watanabe, K.; Nakayama, T.; Mottl, J., Ionization potentials of some molecules, J. Quant. Spectry. Radiative Transfer, 1962, 2, 369. [all data]

Grammaticakis, 1953
Grammaticakis, P., Contribution a l'etude de l'absorption dans l'U.-V. moyen et le visible de quelques aldehydes et cetones aromatiques ainsi que de certains de leurs derives fonctionnels, (Premier memoire), Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr., 1953, 20, 821-826. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,gas	Constant pressure heat capacity of gas
  IE (evaluated)	Recommended ionization energy
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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