1-Butene

• Formula: C₄H₈
• Molecular weight: 56.1063
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H8/c1-3-4-2/h3H,1,4H2,2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: VXNZUUAINFGPBY-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 106-98-9
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: α-Butene; α-Butylene; But-1-ene; Butene-1; Ethylethylene; 1-Butylene; 1-C4H8
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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
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of vaporization

Δ_vapH = A exp(-αT_r) (1 − T_r)^β
    Δ_vapH = Enthalpy of vaporization (at saturation pressure) (kcal/mol)
    T_r = reduced temperature (T / T_c)

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Entropy of vaporization

Antoine Equation Parameters

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

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Enthalpy of fusion

Entropy of fusion

References

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Takeda, Yamamuro, et al., 1991
Takeda, K.; Yamamuro, O.; Suga, H., Thermodynamic study of 1-butene. Exothermic and endothermic enthalpy relaxations near the glass transition, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 1991, 52, 607. [all data]

Chao, Hall, et al., 1983
Chao, J.; Hall, K.R.; Yao, J.M., Thermodynamic Properties of Simple Alkenes, Thermochim. Acta, 1983, 64, 285. [all data]

Aston, Finke, et al., 1946
Aston, J.G.; Finke, H.L.; Bestul, A.B.; Pace, E.L.; Szasz, G.J., The Heat Capacity and Entropy, Heats of Fusion and Vaporization and the Vapor Pressure of Butene-1. The Zero Point Entropy of the Glass. The Entropy of the Gas from Molecular Data, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1946, 68, 52. [all data]

Tsonopoulos and Ambrose, 1996
Tsonopoulos, C.; Ambrose, D., Vapor-Liquid Critical Properties of Elements and Compounds. 6. Unsaturated Aliphatic Hydrocarbons, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1996, 41, 645-656. [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]

Coffin and Maass, 1928
Coffin, C.C.; Maass, O., The Preparation and Physical Properties of α-,β- and γ-Butylene and Normal and Isobutane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1928, 50, 1427-37. [all data]

Reid, 1972
Reid, Robert C., Handbook on vapor pressure and heats of vaporization of hydrocarbons and related compounds, R. C. Wilhort and B. J. Zwolinski, Texas A Research Foundation. College Station, Texas(1971). 329 pages.$10.00, AIChE J., 1972, 18, 6, 1278-1278, https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.690180637 . [all data]

Aston, Fink, et al., 1946
Aston, J.G.; Fink, H.L.; Bestul, A.B.; Pace, E.L.; Szasz, G.J., The heat capacity and entropy, heats of fusion and vaporization and the vapor pressure of butene-1. The zero point entropy of the glass. The entropy of the gas from molecular data, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1946, 68, 52-57. [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]

Lamb and Roper, 1940
Lamb, Arthur B.; Roper, Edwin E., The Vapor Pressures of Certain Unsaturated Hydrocarbons, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1940, 62, 4, 806-814, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01861a032 . [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]

Coffin and Maass, 1928, 2
Coffin, C.C.; Maass, O., The Preparation and Physical Properties of α, β- and γ-Butylene and Normal and Isobutane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1928, 50, 5, 1427-1437, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01392a028 . [all data]

Takeda, Yamamuro, et al., 1991, 2
Takeda, K.; Yamamuro, O.; Suga, H., Thermodynamic study of 1-butene. Exothermic and endothermic enthalpy relaxations near the glass transition, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 1991, 22, 607-615. [all data]

Chao, Hall, et al., 1983, 2
Chao, J.; Hall, K.R.; Yao, J.M., Thermodynamic properties of simple alkenes, Thermochim. Acta, 1983, 64(3), 285-303. [all data]

Domalski and Hearing, 1996
Domalski, Eugene S.; Hearing, Elizabeth D., Heat Capacities and Entropies of Organic Compounds in the Condensed Phase. Volume III, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1996, 25, 1, 1, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.555985 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Pc	Critical pressure
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tc	Critical temperature
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  Vc	Critical volume
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔfusS	Entropy of fusion
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions
  ΔvapS	Entropy of vaporization
  ρc	Critical density

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