Benzene, hexafluoro-

• Formula: C₆F₆
• Molecular weight: 186.0546
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C6F6/c7-1-2(8)4(10)6(12)5(11)3(1)9 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: ZQBFAOFFOQMSGJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 392-56-3
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: CP 28; Hexafluorobenzene; Perfluorobenzene; 1,2,3,4,5,6-Hexafluorobenzene
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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Reduced pressure boiling point

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of vaporization

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

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Antoine Equation Parameters

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

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Enthalpy of sublimation

Enthalpy of fusion

Entropy of fusion

References

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Messerly and Finke, 1970
Messerly, J.F.; Finke, H.L., hexafluorobenzene and 1,3-difluorobenzene low temperature calorimetric studies and chemical thermodynamic properties, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1970, 2, 867-80. [all data]

Paukov and Glukhikh, 1967
Paukov, I.E.; Glukhikh, L.K., Low temperature specific heats and absolute entropies of hexafluorobenzene and pentafluorochlorobenzene, Zh. Vses. Khim. O-va. im. D. I. Mendeleeva, 1967, 12, 236-7. [all data]

Counsell, Green, et al., 1965
Counsell, J.F.; Green, J.H.S.; Hales, J.L.; Martin, J.F., Thermodynamic properties of fluorine compounds Part 2.-Physical and thermodynamic properties of hexafluorobenzene, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1965, 61, 212. [all data]

Douslin, Harrison, et al., 1969
Douslin, D.R.; Harrison, R.H.; Moore, R.T., Pressure-Volume-Temperature Relations of Hexafluorobenzene, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1969, 1, 305-19. [all data]

Hales and Townsend, 1974
Hales, J.L.; Townsend, R., Liquid Densities from 293 to 490 K of Eight Fluorinated Aromatic Comp., J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1974, 6, 111-6. [all data]

Mousa, Kay, et al., 1972
Mousa, A.H.N.; Kay, W.B.; Kreglewski, A., The critical constants of binary mixtures of certain perfluoro-compounds with alkanes, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1972, 4, 301-11. [all data]

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

PCR Inc., 1990
PCR Inc., Research Chemicals Catalog 1990-1991, PCR Inc., Gainesville, FL, 1990, 1. [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]

Douslin and Osborn, 2002
Douslin, D.R.; Osborn, A., Pressure measurements in the 0.01-30 torr range with an inclined-piston gauge, J. Sci. Instrum., 2002, 42, 6, 369-373, https://doi.org/10.1088/0950-7671/42/6/301 . [all data]

Ambrose, Ewing, et al., 1990
Ambrose, D.; Ewing, M.B.; Ghiassee, N.B.; Sanchez Ochoa, J.C., The ebulliometric method of vapour-pressure measurement: vapour pressures of benzene, hexafluorobenzene, and naphthalene, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 1990, 22, 6, 589-605, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9614(90)90151-F . [all data]

Davies, Ewing, et al., 1988
Davies, D.R.; Ewing, M.B.; Hugill, J.A.; McGlashan, M.L., The critical temperature, the critical pressure, and the dependence of vapour pressure on temperature for dodecafluorocyclohexane and hexafluorobenzene, Can. J. Chem., 1988, 66, 4, 760-762, https://doi.org/10.1139/v88-131 . [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]

Patrick and Tomes, 1980
Patrick, C.R.; Tomes, F., The vapour pressures and excess free energies of mixing of the systems hexafluorobenzene-carbon tetrachloride and hexafluorobenzene-perfluoromethylcyclohexane, Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 1980, 15, 4, 267-278, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1139(00)81462-1 . [all data]

Findlay, 1969
Findlay, T.J.V., Vapor pressures of fluorobenzenes from 5 to 50.deg.C, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1969, 14, 2, 229-231, https://doi.org/10.1021/je60041a012 . [all data]

Evans and Tiley, 1966
Evans, F.D.; Tiley, P.F., Vapour pressures and critical constants of hexafluoro-, pentafluoro-, chloropentafluoro-, and bromopentafluoro-benzene, J. Chem. Soc., B:, 1966, 134, https://doi.org/10.1039/j29660000134 . [all data]

Patrick and Prosser, 1964
Patrick, C.R.; Prosser, G.S., Vapour pressures and related properties of hexafluorobenzene and of pentafluorobenzene, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1964, 60, 700, https://doi.org/10.1039/tf9646000700 . [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]

Douslin, Harrison, et al., 1969, 2
Douslin, D.R.; Harrison, R.H.; Moore, R.T., Pressure-Volume-Temperature Relations of Hexafluorobenzene, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1969, 1, 3, 305-319, https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9614(69)90050-0 . [all data]

Counsell, Green, et al., 1965, 2
Counsell, J.F.; Green, J.H.S.; Hales, J.L.; Martin, J.F., Thermodynamic properties of fluorine compounds. Part 2. Physical and thermodynamic properties of hexafluorobenzene, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1965, 61, 212-218. [all data]

Douslin and Osborn, 1965
Douslin, D.R.; Osborn, A., Pressure Measurements in the 0·01-30 Torr with an Inclined-Piston Gauge, J. Sci. Instrum., 1965, 42, 6, 369-373, https://doi.org/10.1088/0950-7671/42/6/301 . [all data]

Scott and Osborn, 1979
Scott, D.W.; Osborn, A.G., Representation of vapor-pressure data, J. Phys. Chem., 1979, 83, 21, 2714-2723, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100484a007 . [all data]

Messerly and Finke, 1970, 2
Messerly, J.F.; Finke, H.L., Hexafluorobenzene and 1,3-difluorobenzene. Low-temperature calorimetric studies and chemical thermodynamic properties, J. Chem. Thermodynam., 1970, 2, 867-880. [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
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  Vc	Critical volume
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔfusS	Entropy of fusion
  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions
  ρc	Critical density

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