Carbon monoxide

• Formula: CO
• Molecular weight: 28.0101
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/CO/c1-2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: UGFAIRIUMAVXCW-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 630-08-0
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Carbon oxide (CO); CO; Exhaust gas; Flue gas; Carbonic oxide; Carbon oxide; Carbone (oxyde de); Carbonio (ossido di); Kohlenmonoxid; Kohlenoxyd; Koolmonoxyde; NA 9202; Oxyde de carbone; UN 1016; Wegla tlenek; Carbon monooxide
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Henry's Law data

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Data compiled by: Rolf Sander

Henry's Law constant (water solution)

k_H(T) = k°_H exp(d(ln(k_H))/d(1/T) ((1/T) - 1/(298.15 K)))
k°_H = Henry's law constant for solubility in water at 298.15 K (mol/(kg*bar))
d(ln(k_H))/d(1/T) = Temperature dependence constant (K)

IR Spectrum

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Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Spectrum

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Additional Data

Constants of diatomic molecules

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Data compiled by: Klaus P. Huber and Gerhard H. Herzberg

Data collected through October, 1976

Notes

References

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Bouanich, J.-P.; Brodbeck, C., Etalonnage et deplacement des raies de vibration-rotation des bandes 0 → 2 et 0 → 3 de l'oxyde de carbone, Rev. Phys. Appl., 1974, 9, 475. [all data]

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Mantz, A.W.; Maillard, J.-P., Emission spectra with a high resolution Fourier transform spectrometer: CO spectra and their astrophysical importance, J. Mol. Spectrosc., 1974, 53, 466. [all data]

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Ozier, Crapo, et al., 1968
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van der Wiel, El-Sherbini, et al., 1970
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Lee, Carlson, et al., 1975
Lee, L.C.; Carlson, R.W.; Judge, D.L.; Ogawa, M., Vacuum ultraviolet fluorescence from photodissociation fragments of CO and CO₂, J. Chem. Phys., 1975, 63, 3987. [all data]

Locht and Durer, 1975
Locht, R.; Durer, J.M., New predissociations of CO and CO⁺ induced by low energy electron impact, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1975, 34, 508. [all data]

Krupenie and Benesch, 1968
Krupenie, P.H.; Benesch, W., Electronic transition moment integrals for first ionization of CO and the A-X transition in Co⁺. Some limitations on the use of the r-centroid approximation, J. Res. Nat. Bur. Stand. Sect. A, 1968, 72, 495. [all data]

Nicholls, 1968
Nicholls, R.W., Franck-Condon factors for ionizing transitions of O₂, CO, NO and H₂ and for the NO⁺(A¹-Σx¹Σ) band system, J. Phys. B:, 1968, 1, 1192. [all data]

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Gardner, J.L.; Samson, J.A.R., Experimental vibrational intensity distributions for continuum photoionization to the X²Σ⁺, A²Π, and B²Σ⁺ states of CO⁺ and N₂⁺, J. Chem. Phys., 1974, 60, 3711. [all data]

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Carbonneau and Marmet, 1973
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Lassettre and Skerbele, 1971
Lassettre, E.N.; Skerbele, A., Absolute generalized oscillator strengths for four electronic transitions in carbon monoxide, J. Chem. Phys., 1971, 54, 1597. [all data]

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Hesser, 1968
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Slanger and Black, 1972
Slanger, T.G.; Black, G., Relative electronic transition moments for the triplet system (d³Δ → a³Π) of CO, J. Phys. B:, 1972, 5, 1988. [all data]

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Kovacs, I.; Toros, R., The intensity distribution of the triplet bands of the CO molecule, Acta Phys. Hung., 1965, 18, 101. [all data]

Slanger and Black, 1973
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Wicke, Klemperer, et al., 1975
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Stern, Gammon, et al., 1970
Stern, R.C.; Gammon, R.H.; Lesk, M.E.; Freund, R.S.; Klemperer, W.A., Fine structure and dipole moment of metastable a³Π carbon monoxide, J. Chem. Phys., 1970, 52, 3467. [all data]

Gammon, Stern, et al., 1971
Gammon, R.H.; Stern, R.C.; Klemperer, W., Molecular-beam electric-resonance spectroscopy of the a³Π (v = 4)-a'³Σ⁺ (v' = O) perturbation in CO, J. Chem. Phys., 1971, 54, 2151. [all data]

Freund and Klemperer, 1965
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  d(ln(kH))/d(1/T)	Temperature dependence parameter for Henry's Law constant
  k°H	Henry's Law constant at 298.15K

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