meso-2,3-Butanediol

• Formula: C₄H₁₀O₂
• Molecular weight: 90.1210
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H10O2/c1-3(5)4(2)6/h3-6H,1-2H3/t3-,4+ Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: OWBTYPJTUOEWEK-ZXZARUISSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 5341-95-7
• Chemical structure:
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• Species with the same structure:
  • 2,3-Butanediol, (R,S)
• Stereoisomers:
  • 2,3-Butanediol, [S-(R*,R*)]-
  • 2,3-Butanediol, [R-(R*,R*)]-
  • 2,3-Butanediol
  • DL-2,3-Butanediol
  • levo-butane-2,3-diol
  • 2,3-Butanediol, rac
  • 2,3-Butanediol, (R,R)
• Other names: 2,3-Butanediol, meso-; (E)-2,3-butanediol; threo-2,3-Butanediol; erythro-2,3-Butanediol; meso-butane-2,3-diol; (R,S)-Butan-2,3-diol; 2,3-Butanediol (erythro-); 2,3-butanediol (erythro)
• Information on this page:
  • Phase change data
  • References
  • Notes
• Other data available:
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Phase change data

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of fusion

References

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., 1990
Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals, Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Milwaukee WI, 1990, 1. [all data]

Othmer, Shlechter, et al., 1945
Othmer, D.F.; Shlechter, N.; Koszalka, W.A., Composition of vapours from boiling binary solutions - systems used in butadiene manufacture from butylene glycol., Ind. Eng. Chem., 1945, 37, 895. [all data]

Fishbein, 1957
Fishbein, L., The Reaction of dl- and meso-2,3-dibromobutane with Silver nitrate in Acetonitrile. Failure of the Nitrate Ester Grouping to Exhibit the Neighboring Group Effect, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1957, 79, 2959. [all data]

Knowlton, Schieltz, et al., 1946
Knowlton, J.W.; Schieltz, N.C.; Macmillan, D., Physical Chemistry of the 2,3-Butanediols, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1946, 68, 208-10. [all data]

Lucas and Gould, 1941
Lucas, H.J.; Gould, C.W., The Conversion of 3-CHloro-2-butanols to the 2,3-Dichlorobutanes; Evidence for a Cyclic Chloronium Intermediate, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1941, 63, 2541-2551. [all data]

Wilson and Lucas, 1936
Wilson, C.E.; Lucas, H.J., Stereochemical Relationships of the Isomeric 2,3-Butanediols and Related Compounds; Evidence of Walden Inversion, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1936, 58, 2396. [all data]

Ermelinda Eusébio, Lopes Jesus, et al., 2003
Ermelinda Eusébio, M.; Lopes Jesus, A.J.; Cruz, Mafalda S.C.; Leitão, M. Luisa P.; Simões Redinha, J., Enthalpy of vaporisation of butanediol isomers, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 2003, 35, 1, 123-129, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0021-9614(02)00306-3 . [all data]

Knowlton, Schieltz, et al., 1946, 2
Knowlton, J.W.; Schieltz, N.C.; Macmillan, D., Physical chemical properties of the 2,3-butanediols, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1946, 68, 208-210. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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