Methane, tetranitro-

• Formula: CN₄O₈
• Molecular weight: 196.0327
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/CN4O8/c6-2(7)1(3(8)9,4(10)11)5(12)13 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: NYTOUQBROMCLBJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 509-14-8
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Tetranitromethane; TNM; NCI-C55947; Rcra waste number P112; UN 1510
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

Enthalpy of vaporization

Antoine Equation Parameters

log₁₀(P) = A − (B / (T + C))
    P = vapor pressure (atm)
    T = temperature (K)

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Enthalpy of sublimation

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Ionization energy determinations

References

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Lebedev, Miroshnichenko, et al., 1975
Lebedev, V.P.; Miroshnichenko, E.A.; Matyushin, Yu.N.; Larionov, V.P.; Romanov, V.S.; Bukolov, Yu.E.; Denisov, G.M.; Balepin, A.A.; Lebedev, Yu.A., Semimicrocalorimetric determination of gas-phase enthalpies of formation of compounds containing nitrogen and oxygen. II. calorimetric determinationi of enthalpies of formation [of Tetranitromethane], Russ. J. Phys. Chem. (Engl. Transl.), 1975, 49, 1133-1136, In original 1933. [all data]

Majer and Svoboda, 1985
Majer, V.; Svoboda, V., Enthalpies of Vaporization of Organic Compounds: A Critical Review and Data Compilation, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1985, 300. [all data]

Timmermans and Hennaut-Roland, 1955
Timmermans, J.; Hennaut-Roland, M., Work of the International Bureau of Physical-Chemical Standards. IX. The Physical Constants of Twenty Organic Compounds, J. Chim. Phys. Phys.-Chim. Biol., 1955, 52, 223. [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]

Boublik, Fried, et al., 1984
Boublik, T.; Fried, V.; Hala, E., The Vapour Pressures of Pure Substances: Selected Values of the Temperature Dependence of the Vapour Pressures of Some Pure Substances in the Normal and Low Pressure Region, 2nd ed., Elsevier, New York, 1984, 972. [all data]

Edwards, 1952
Edwards, G., The vapour pressure of tetranitromethane, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1952, 48, 513, https://doi.org/10.1039/tf9524800513 . [all data]

Nicholson, 1949
Nicholson, A.J.C., 331. Some physical properties of tetranitromethane, J. Chem. Soc., 1949, 1553, https://doi.org/10.1039/jr9490001553 . [all data]

Edwards, 1952, 2
Edwards, G., The vapour pressure of tetranitromethane, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1952, 48, 000. [all data]

Pedley, Naylor, et al., 1986
Pedley, J.B.; Naylor, R.D.; Kirby, S.P., Thermochemical Data of Organic Compounds, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1986, 1-792. [all data]

Edwards, 1952, 3
Edwards, G., The Vapour Pressure of Tetranitromethane, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1952, 48, 513-515, https://doi.org/10.1039/tf9524800513 . [all data]

Nicholson, 1949, 2
Nicholson, A.J.C., Some Physical Properties of Tetranitromethane, J. Chem. Soc., 1949, 1553-1555, https://doi.org/10.1039/jr9490001553 . [all data]

Seki and Nitta, 1941
Seki, S.; Nitta, I., J. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 1941, 62, 907. [all data]

Koo, Chin, et al., 1990
Koo, L.K.; Chin, W.S.; Mok, C.Y.; Huang, H.H., A study of the pyrolysis of trinitro- and tetranitromethane by photoelectron spectroscopy, Bull. Singapore Natl. Inst. Chem., 1990, 18, 121. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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