Methyl radical

• Formula: CH₃
• Molecular weight: 15.0345
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/CH3/h1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: WCYWZMWISLQXQU-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 2229-07-4
• Chemical structure:
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• Isotopologues:
  • Methyl-d3 radical
  • Methyl-d3 radical
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Gas Phase Heat Capacity (Shomate Equation)

C_p° = A + B*t + C*t² + D*t³ + E/t²
H° − H°_298.15= A*t + B*t²/2 + C*t³/3 + D*t⁴/4 − E/t + F − H
S° = A*ln(t) + B*t + C*t²/2 + D*t³/3 − E/(2*t²) + G
    C_p = heat capacity (cal/mol*K)
    H° = standard enthalpy (kcal/mol)
    S° = standard entropy (cal/mol*K)
    t = temperature (K) / 1000.

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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Robert C. Dunbar

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Individual Reactions

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Fe⁺ + CH₃ = (Fe⁺ • CH₃)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Ni⁺ + CH₃ = (Ni⁺ • CH₃)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Co⁺ + CH₃ = (Co⁺ • CH₃)

( • 2) +  = ( • 3)

By formula: (Si⁺ • 2CH₃) + CH₃ = (Si⁺ • 3CH₃)

( • 3) +  = ( • 4)

By formula: (Si⁺ • 3CH₃) + CH₃ = (Si⁺ • 4CH₃)

( • ) +  = ( • 2)

By formula: (Si⁺ • CH₃) + CH₃ = (Si⁺ • 2CH₃)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Si⁺ + CH₃ = (Si⁺ • CH₃)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: La⁺ + CH₃ = (La⁺ • CH₃)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Y⁺ + CH₃ = (Y⁺ • CH₃)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Lu⁺ + CH₃ = (Lu⁺ • CH₃)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Cu⁺ + CH₃ = (Cu⁺ • CH₃)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Cr⁺ + CH₃ = (Cr⁺ • CH₃)

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Mn⁺ + CH₃ = (Mn⁺ • CH₃)

References

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Chase, 1998
Chase, M.W., Jr., NIST-JANAF Themochemical Tables, Fourth Edition, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, Monograph 9, 1998, 1-1951. [all data]

Tsang, 1996
Tsang, W., Heats of Formation of Organic Free Radicals by Kinetic Methods in Energetics of Organic Free Radicals, Martinho Simoes, J.A.; Greenberg, A.; Liebman, J.F., eds., Blackie Academic and Professional, London, 1996, 22-58. [all data]

Fisher, Schultz, et al., 1989
Fisher, E.R.; Schultz, r.H.; Armentrout, P.B., Guided Ion Beam Studies of the State - Specific Reactions of Fe+(6D,4F) with CH3X (X = Cl, Br, I), J. Phys. Chem., 1989, 93, 21, 7382, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100358a027 . [all data]

Schultz, Elkind, et al., 1988
Schultz, R.H.; Elkind, J.L.; Armentrout, P.B., Electronic Effects in C-H and C-C Bond Activation: State-Specific Reactions of Fe+(6D,4F) with Methane, Ethane and Propane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1988, 110, 2, 411, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00210a017 . [all data]

Fisher, Sunderlin, et al., 1989
Fisher, E.R.; Sunderlin, L.S.; Armentrout, P.B., Guided Ion Beam Studies of the Reactions of CO+ and Ni+ with CH3X (X=Cl, Br, I). Implications for the Metal-Methyl Ion Bond Energies, J. Phys. Chem., 1989, 93, 21, 7375, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100358a026 . [all data]

Georgiadis, Fisher, et al., 1989
Georgiadis, R.; Fisher, E.R.; Armentrout, P.B., Neutral and Ionic Metal-Hydrogen and Metal-Carbon Bond Energies: Reactions of Co+, Ni+, and Cu+ with Ethane, Propane, Methylpropane, and Dimethylpropane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1989, 111, 12, 4251, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00194a016 . [all data]

Lin, Dunbar, et al., 1996
Lin, C.-Y.; Dunbar, R.C.; Haynes, C.L.; Armentrout, P.B.; Tonner, D.S.; McMahon, T.J., The Dissociation Thermochemistry of Tetramethylsilane Ion. Comparative Determination by Thermal Dissociation and Threshold Collisional Dissociation, J. Phys. Chem., 1996, 100, 50, 19659, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp962523s . [all data]

Sunderlin and Armentrout, 1989
Sunderlin, L.S.; Armentrout, P.B., Periodic Trends in Chemical Reactivity: Reactions of Sc+, Y+, La+, and Lu+ with Methane and Ethane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1989, 111, 11, 3845, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00193a015 . [all data]

Georgiadis and Armentrout, 1989
Georgiadis, R.; Armentrout, P.B., Reactions of Ground State Cr+ with C2H6, C2H4, cyclo-C3H6, and cyclo-C2H4O: Bond Energies for CrCHn+ (n= 1-3), Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Proc., 1989, 89, 2-3, 227, https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-1176(89)83062-9 . [all data]

Georgiadis and Armentrout, 1989, 2
Georgiadis, R.; Armentrout, P.B., Translational and Electronic Energy Dependence of the Reaction of Mn+ with Ethane, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Proc., 1989, 91, 2, 123, https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-1176(89)83003-4 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  S°gas,1 bar	Entropy of gas at standard conditions (1 bar)
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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