2-Butanone

• Formula: C₄H₈O
• Molecular weight: 72.1057
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H8O/c1-3-4(2)5/h3H2,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: ZWEHNKRNPOVVGH-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 78-93-3
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Butan-2-one; Butanone; Ethyl methyl ketone; Ketone, methyl ethyl; Methyl ethyl ketone; MEK; C2H5COCH3; Acetone, methyl-; Aethylmethylketon; 3-Butanone; Butanone 2; Ethyl methyl cetone; Ethylmethylketon; Ketone, ethyl methyl; Meetco; Methyl acetone; Metiletilchetone; Metyloetyloketon; Rcra waste number U159; UN 1193; 2-Oxobutane; 2-Butanal; 2-butanone (MEK; methyl ethyl ketone); 2-butanone (MEK)
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Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
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
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

View reactions leading to C₄H₈O⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

De-protonation reactions

C₄H₇O^- +  =

By formula: C₄H₇O^- + H⁺ = C₄H₈O

C₄H₇O^- +  =

By formula: C₄H₇O^- + H⁺ = C₄H₈O

C₄H₇O^- +  =

By formula: C₄H₇O^- + H⁺ = C₄H₈O

Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Data compiled by: Takehiko Shimanouchi

Trans form     Symmetry:   C_s     Symmetry Number σ = 1

Source: Shimanouchi, 1972

Notes

References

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McAdoo, D.J.; Hudson, C.E., The decompositions of metastable [C₄H₈O]⁺ ions and the [C₄H₈O]⁺ potential surface, Org. Mass Spectrom., 1983, 18, 466. [all data]

Traeger, McLouglin, et al., 1982
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Tam, Yee, et al., 1974
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Murad and Inghram, 1964, 2
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Chyall, L.J.; Brickhouse, M.D.; Schnute, M.E.; Squires, R.R., Kinetic versus thermodynamic control in the deprotonation of unsymmetrical ketones in the gas phase, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1994, 116, 19, 8681, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00098a031 . [all data]

Zimmerman, Reed, et al., 1977
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Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  EA	Electron affinity
  IE (evaluated)	Recommended ionization energy
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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