Methyl propyl ether

• Formula: C₄H₁₀O
• Molecular weight: 74.1216
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H10O/c1-3-4-5-2/h3-4H2,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: VNKYTQGIUYNRMY-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 557-17-5
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Propane, 1-methoxy-; Ether, methyl propyl; Methyl n-propyl ether; Metopryl; Neothyl; 1-Methoxypropane; n-C3H7OCH3; α-Methoxy propane; UN 2612; Propyl methyl ether
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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

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:
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi

Ionization energy determinations

References

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Fenwick, Harrop, et al., 1975
Fenwick, J.O.; Harrop, D.; Head, A.J., Thermodynamic properties of organic oxygen compounds. 41. Enthalpies of formation of eight ethers, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1975, 7, 943-954. [all data]

Pilcher, Pell, et al., 1964
Pilcher, G.; Pell, A.S.; Coleman, D.J., Measurements of heats of combustion by flame calorimetry. Part 2-Dimethyl ether, methyl ethyl ether, methyl n-propyl ether, methyl isopropyl ether, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1964, 60, 499-505. [all data]

Andon R.J.L., 1975
Andon R.J.L., Thermodynamic properties of organic oxygen compounds. 40. Heat capacity and entropy of six ethers, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1975, 7, 593-606. [all data]

Hunter and Lias, 1998
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]

Bowen and Maccoll, 1984
Bowen, R.D.; Maccoll, A., Low energy, low temperature mass spectra, Org. Mass Spectrom., 1984, 19, 379. [all data]

Bachiri, Mouvier, et al., 1980
Bachiri, M.; Mouvier, G.; Carlier, P.; Dubois, J.E., Evaluation quantitative des effets de substituants sur les premiers potentiels d'ionisation de composes monofonctionnels aliphatiques, J. Chim. Phys., 1980, 77, 899. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  S°gas	Entropy of gas at standard conditions
  ΔcH°gas	Enthalpy of combustion of gas at standard conditions
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions

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