1,3,5-Trioxane

• Formula: C₃H₆O₃
• Molecular weight: 90.0779
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C3H6O3/c1-4-2-6-3-5-1/h1-3H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: BGJSXRVXTHVRSN-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 110-88-3
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: s-Trioxane; Formaldehyde, trimer; Triformol; Trioxan; Trioxane; Trioxymethylene; Metaformaldehyde; sym-Trioxane; Trioxin; 1,3,5-Trioxan; s-Trioxan; s-Trixane; Aldeform; Formagene; Marvosan; Paraformaldehyde; Triossimetilene; Trioxymethyleen; Trioxymethylen; 1,3,5-Trioxacyclohexane; NSC 26347
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Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DRB - Donald R. Burgess, Jr.
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of sublimation

Enthalpy of fusion

Gas phase ion energetics data

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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

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

Gas Chromatography

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

Kovats' RI, non-polar column, isothermal

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Normal alkane RI, non-polar column, isothermal

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Normal alkane RI, polar column, custom temperature program

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References

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Le Fevre, Sundaram, et al., 1963
Le Fevre, R.J.W.; Sundaram, A.; Pierens, R.K., Molecular Polarisability: the Anisotropy of the Carbon-Oxygen Link, J. Chem. Soc., 1963, 1963, 479-488. [all data]

Van Bommel, van Miltenburg, et al., 1988
Van Bommel, M.J.; van Miltenburg, J.C.; Schuijff, A., Heat Capacity Measurements and Thermodynamic Functions of 1,3,5- Triazine and 1,3,5-Trioxane, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1988, 20, 397-403. [all data]

Stephenson and Malanowski, 1987
Stephenson, Richard M.; Malanowski, Stanislaw, Handbook of the Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds, 1987, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3173-2 . [all data]

Serebryannaya and Byk, 1965
Serebryannaya, I.I.; Byk, S.Sh., Khim. Prom., 1965, 23, 828. [all data]

De Wit, Van Miltenburg, et al., 1983
De Wit, H.G.M.; Van Miltenburg, J.C.; De Kruif, C.G., Thermodynamic properties of molecular organic crystals containing nitrogen, oxygen, and sulphur 1. Vapour pressures and enthalpies of sublimation, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 1983, 15, 7, 651-663, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9614(83)90079-4 . [all data]

van Bommel, van Miltenburg, et al., 1988
van Bommel, M.J.; van Miltenburg, J.C.; Schuijff, A., Heat-capacity measurements and thermodynamic functions of 1,3,5-triazine and 1,3,5-trioxane, J. Chem. Thermodynam., 1988, 20, 397-403. [all data]

Domalski and Hearing, 1996
Domalski, Eugene S.; Hearing, Elizabeth D., Heat Capacities and Entropies of Organic Compounds in the Condensed Phase. Volume III, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1996, 25, 1, 1, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.555985 . [all data]

Acree, 1991
Acree, William E., Thermodynamic properties of organic compounds: enthalpy of fusion and melting point temperature compilation, Thermochimica Acta, 1991, 189, 1, 37-56, https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-6031(91)87098-H . [all data]

Sweigart and Turner, 1972
Sweigart, D.A.; Turner, D.W., Lone pair orbitals and their interactions studied by photoelectron spectroscopy. II. Equivalent orbitals in saturated oxygen and sulfur J. Heterocycl. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1972, 94, 5599. [all data]

Kumakura, Sugiura, et al., 1968
Kumakura, M.; Sugiura, T.; Okamura, S., Characteristics of RPD ion source of time-of-flight mass spectrometer, and measurement of the ionization potential and the appearance potentials of trioxymethylene, Mass Spectry. (Tokyo), 1968, 16, 16. [all data]

Bogoslovsky, Anvaer, et al., 1978
Bogoslovsky, Yu.N.; Anvaer, B.I.; Vigdergauz, M.S., Chromatographic constants in gas chromatography (in Russian), Standards Publ. House, Moscow, 1978, 192. [all data]

Kurdina, Markovich, et al., 1969
Kurdina, Z.G.; Markovich, V.E.; Sakharov, V.M., Gas chromatography of cyclic O-containing compounds in Gas chromatography, Issue # 10, NIITEKhim, Moscow, 1969, 128-133. [all data]

Peng, Yang, et al., 1991
Peng, C.T.; Yang, Z.C.; Ding, S.F., Prediction of rentention idexes. II. Structure-retention index relationship on polar columns, J. Chromatogr., 1991, 586, 1, 85-112, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9673(91)80028-F . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation
  ΔsubH°	Enthalpy of sublimation at standard conditions
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization

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