Hexanal

• Formula: C₆H₁₂O
• Molecular weight: 100.1589
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C6H12O/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7/h6H,2-5H2,1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: JARKCYVAAOWBJS-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 66-25-1
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: n-Caproaldehyde; n-Hexanal; Caproaldehyde; Caproic aldehyde; Capronaldehyde; Hexaldehyde; n-C5H11CHO; 1-Hexanal; n-Hexaldehyde; n-Caproylaldehyde; Aldehyde C-6; Kapronaldehyd; UN 1207; Hexylaldehyde; n-Capronaldehyde; Hexan-1-al; Hexanaldehyde; NSC 2596
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Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Reduced pressure boiling point

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of fusion

Entropy of fusion

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
L - Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

References

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Anonymous, 1953
Anonymous, R., , Physical Properties of Chemical Substances, Dow Chemical Company, 1953. [all data]

Timmermans, 1953
Timmermans, J., Physical Constants of Crystaline Organic Compounds, Mass on & Cie: Paris, France, 1953. [all data]

Vasil'ev, Bykova, et al., 1991
Vasil'ev, V.G.; Bykova, T.A.; Lebedev, B.V., Thermodynamics of hexanal at 0-330 K, Zh. Fiz. Khim., 1991, 65, 51-4. [all data]

Gude and Teja, 1994
Gude, M.T.; Teja, A.S., The Critical Properties of Several n-Alkanals, Tetralin and NMP, Experimental Results for DIPPR 1990-91 Projects on Phase Equilibria and Pure Component Properties, 1994, 1994, DIPPR Data Series No. 2, p.174-83. [all data]

Teja and Rosenthal, 1990
Teja, A.S.; Rosenthal, D.J., The Critical Pressures and Temperatures of Twelve Substances Using A Low Residence Time Flow Apparatus, AIChE Symp. Ser., 1990, 86, 279, 133-7. [all data]

Verevkin, Krasnykh, et al., 2003
Verevkin, Sergey P.; Krasnykh, Eugen L.; Vasiltsova, Tatiana V.; Koutek, Bohumir; Doubsky, Jan; Heintz, Andreas, Vapor pressures and enthalpies of vaporization of a series of the linear aliphatic aldehydes, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2003, 206, 1-2, 331-339, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-3812(03)00035-9 . [all data]

D'yakova, Korichev, et al., 1981
D'yakova, G.N.; Korichev, G.L.; Korkhova, A.D.; Vasil'eva, T.F.; Vasil'ev, I.A., Zh. Prikl. Khim. (Leningrad), 1981, 54, 1644. [all data]

Weast and Grasselli, 1989
CRC Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds, 2nd Editon, Weast,R.C and Grasselli, J.G., ed(s)., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 1989, 1. [all data]

Palczewska-Tulinska and Oracz, 2006
Palczewska-Tulinska, Marcela; Oracz, Pawel, Vapor Pressures of Hexanal, 2-Methylcyclohexanone, and 2-Cyclohexen-1-one, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2006, 51, 2, 639-641, https://doi.org/10.1021/je0504358 . [all data]

Markovnik, Sachek, et al., 1979
Markovnik, V.S.; Sachek, A.I.; Peshchenko, A.D.; Shvaro, O.V.; Andreevskii, D.N.; Olizarevich, N.M., Termodin. Org. Soedin., 1979, 107. [all data]

Vasil'ev, Bykova, et al., 1991, 2
Vasil'ev, V.G.; Bykova, T.A.; Lebedev, B.V., Thermodynamics of hexanal at 0-330K, Zhur. Fiz. Khim., 1991, 65(1), 51-54. [all data]

Morgan, Derrick, et al., 1980
Morgan, R.P.; Derrick, P.J.; Loudon, A.G., Kinetics and mechanisms of the decompositions of the molecular ions of pentanal and its monomethyl- substituted homologues in the picosecond to microsecond time interval following field ionization, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2, 1980, 306. [all data]

Ashmore and Burgess, 1978
Ashmore, F.S.; Burgess, A.R., Photoelectron spectra of the unbranched C₅-C₇ alkenes, aldehydes and ketones, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. 2, 1978, 74, 734. [all data]

Hernandez, Masclet, et al., 1977
Hernandez, R.; Masclet, P.; Mouvier, G., Spectroscopie de photoelectrons d'aldehydes et de cetones aliphatiques, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1977, 10, 333. [all data]

Holmes and Lossing, 1980
Holmes, J.L.; Lossing, F.P., Gas-phase heats of formation of keto and enol ions of carbonyl compounds., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1980, 102, 1591. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  IE (evaluated)	Recommended ionization energy
  Pc	Critical pressure
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tc	Critical temperature
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔfusS	Entropy of fusion
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions
  ρc	Critical density

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