Anthracene

• Formula: C₁₄H₁₀
• Molecular weight: 178.2292
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C14H10/c1-2-6-12-10-14-8-4-3-7-13(14)9-11(12)5-1/h1-10H Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: MWPLVEDNUUSJAV-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 120-12-7
• Chemical structure:
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• Isotopologues:
  • Anthracene-D10-
• Other names: Anthracin; Green Oil; Paranaphthalene; Tetra Olive N2G; Anthracene oil; p-Naphthalene; Anthracen; Coal tar pitch volatiles:anthracene; Sterilite hop defoliant
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  • References
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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 as indicated in comments:
M - Michael M. Meot-Ner (Mautner) and Sharon G. Lias
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

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Individual Reactions

C₁₄H₁₁⁺ +  = (C₁₄H₁₁⁺ • )

By formula: C₁₄H₁₁⁺ + C₁₄H₁₀ = (C₁₄H₁₁⁺ • C₁₄H₁₀)

Free energy of reaction

= 2

By formula: C₂₈H₂₀ = 2C₁₄H₁₀

C₁₄H₁₀⁺ +  = (C₁₄H₁₀⁺ • )

By formula: C₁₄H₁₀⁺ + C₁₄H₁₀ = (C₁₄H₁₀⁺ • C₁₄H₁₀)

Bond type: Charge transfer bond (positive ion)

 +  =

By formula: C₄H₂O₃ + C₁₄H₁₀ = C₁₈H₁₂O₃

=

By formula: C₁₄H₁₀ = C₁₄H₁₀

 +  = C₂₁H₁₈O₃

By formula: C₁₄H₁₀ + C₇H₈O₃ = C₂₁H₁₈O₃

=  + 

By formula: C₂₀H₁₀N₄ = C₁₄H₁₀ + C₆N₄

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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

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Additional Data

References

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Dorofeeva O.V., 1988
Dorofeeva O.V., Thermodynamic Properties of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Gaseous Phase. Institute for High Temperatures, USSR Academy of Sciences, Preprint No.1-238 (in Russian), Moscow, 1988. [all data]

Kudchadker S.A., 1979
Kudchadker S.A., Chemical thermodynamic properties of anthracene and phenathrene, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1979, 11, 1051-1059. [all data]

Frenkel M., 1994
Frenkel M., Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds in the Gas State, Vol. I, II, Thermodynamics Research Center, College Station, Texas, 1994, 1994. [all data]

Meot-Ner (Mautner), 1980
Meot-Ner (Mautner), M., Dimer Cations of Polycyclic Aromatics: Experimental Bonding Energies and Resonance Stabilization, J. Phys. Chem., 1980, 84, 21, 2724, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100458a012 . [all data]

Bendig, Buchwitz, et al., 1981
Bendig, J.; Buchwitz, W.; Fischer, J.; Kreysig, D., Deactivation behavior of arenes and heteroarenes. XXXII. Effect of endo- and exocyclic substitution on the reversible dimerization behavior of anthracenes, J. Prakt. Chem., 1981, 323, 485-498. [all data]

Bendig and Kreysig, 1981
Bendig, J.; Kreysig, D., Deactivation behavior of arenes and heteroarenes. XXXI. A model of the reversible photodimerization of anthracene and 9-methylanthracene, J. Prakt. Chem., 1981, 323, 471-484. [all data]

Donati, Guarini, et al., 1981
Donati, D.; Guarini, G.G.T.; Sarti-Fantoni, P., Evaluation of the enthalpic change during the monomerization reaction of crystalline anthracene photodimer (AD), Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., 1981, 69, 241-243. [all data]

Kiselev, Mavrin, et al., 1982
Kiselev, V.D.; Mavrin, G.V.; Konovalov, A.I., Thermodynamic principles of the occurrence of a Diels-Alder reaction in the presence of a Lewis acid, Zh. Org. Khim., 1982, 18, 2505-2510. [all data]

Lenz, Hegedus, et al., 1982
Lenz, T.G.; Hegedus, L.S.; Vaughan, J.D., Liquid phase thermochemical energy conversion systems - an application of Diels-Alder chemistry, Int. J. Energy Res., 1982, 6, 357-365. [all data]

Dreeskamp, Kapahnke, et al., 1988
Dreeskamp, H.; Kapahnke, P.; Tochtermann, W., Photo valence isomerization of sterically strained aromatic hydrocarbons: 8,9-dicarbethoxy[6]paracyclophane, Radiat. Phys. Chem., 1988, 32, 537-539. [all data]

Rogers, 1972
Rogers, F.E., Thermochemistry of the Diels-Alder reactions. II. Heat of addition of several dienes to tetracyanoethylene, J. Phys. Chem., 1972, 76, 106-109. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,gas	Constant pressure heat capacity of gas
  T	Temperature
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrS°	Entropy of reaction at standard conditions

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