Methyl fluoride

• Formula: CH₃F
• Molecular weight: 34.0329
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/CH3F/c1-2/h1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: NBVXSUQYWXRMNV-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 593-53-3
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Fluoromethane; Methane, fluoro-; Freon 41; CH3F; UN 2454; R 41; HFC-41; Refrigerant gas R 41
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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

Enthalpy of vaporization

Antoine Equation Parameters

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

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References

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Papousek, Tesar, et al., 1991
Papousek, D.; Tesar, R.; Pracna, P.; Civis, S.; Winnewisser, M.; Belov, S.P.; Tret'yakov, M.Y., High-resolution Fourier transform and submillimeter-wave study of the ν6 band of methyl-12C fluoride, J. Mol. Spectrosc., 1991, 147, 279-99. [all data]

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

Filatov, Makarov, et al., 1968
Filatov, A.S.; Makarov, S.P.; Yakubovich, A.Ya., Halogenation of 1,1,1-Trifluoroazomethane, Zh. Obshch. Khim., 1968, 38, 33. [all data]

Fonseca and Lobo, 1989
Fonseca, I.M.A.; Lobo, L.Q., Thermodynamics of liquid mixtures of xenon and methyl fluoride, Fluid Phase Equilib., 1989, 47, 249. [all data]

Bominaar, Biswas, et al., 1987
Bominaar, S.A.R.C.; Biswas, S.N.; Trappeniers, N.J.; Ten Seldam, C.A., (p, Vm, T) properties of methyl fluoride in the (gas + liquid) critical region, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1987, 19, 959. [all data]

Cawood and Patterson, 1932
Cawood, W.; Patterson, H.S., Some Physical Constants of Methyl Fluoride, and the Atomic Weight of Fluorine, J. Chem. Soc., 1932, 1932, 2180. [all data]

Biswas, Ten Seldam, et al., 1989
Biswas, S.N.; Ten Seldam, C.A.; Bominaar, S.A.R.C.; Trappeniers, N.J., Liquid-vapor coexistence curve of methyl fluoride in the critical region, Fluid Phase Equilib., 1989, 49, 1-7. [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]

Li and Rossini, 1961
Li, J.C.M.; Rossini, F.D., Vapor Pressures and Boiling Points of the l-Fluoroalkanes, l-Chloroalkanes, l-Bromoalkanes, and l-Iodoalkanes, C ₁ to C ₂₀ ., J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1961, 6, 2, 268-270, https://doi.org/10.1021/je60010a025 . [all data]

Dykyj, 1970
Dykyj, J., Petrochemica, 1970, 10, 2, 51. [all data]

Michels and Wassenaar, 1948
Michels, A.; Wassenaar, T., Vapour pressure of methylfluoride, Physica, 1948, 14, 2-3, 104-110, https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-8914(48)90030-5 . [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]

Moles and Batuecas, 1919
Moles, E.; Batuecas, T.J., J. Chim. Phys. Phys.-Chim. Biol., 1919, 17, 537. [all data]

Oi, Shulman, et al., 1983
Oi, Takao; Shulman, Jan; Popowicz, Anthony; Ishida, Takanobu, Vapor pressure isotope effects in liquid methyl fluoride, J. Phys. Chem., 1983, 87, 16, 3153-3160, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100239a038 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Pc	Critical pressure
  Ptriple	Triple point pressure
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tc	Critical temperature
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ρc	Critical density

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