Acetylacetone

• Formula: C₅H₈O₂
• Molecular weight: 100.1158
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C5H8O2/c1-4(6)3-5(2)7/h3H2,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: YRKCREAYFQTBPV-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 123-54-6
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• Other names: 2,4-Pentanedione; Acetoacetone; Diacetylmethane; Pentane-2,4-dione; 2-Propanone, acetyl-; 2,4-Dioxopentane; 2,4-Pentadione; CH3COCH2COCH3; Acetone, acetyl-; ACAC; Pentanedione; Pentanedione-2,4; Acetyl 2-propanone; UN 2310; 2,4-Pentandione; Pentan-2,4-dione; NSC 5575
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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
M - Michael M. Meot-Ner (Mautner) and Sharon G. Lias

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Individual Reactions

C₅H₇O₂^- +  =

By formula: C₅H₇O₂^- + H⁺ = C₅H₈O₂

=

By formula: C₅H₈O₂ = C₅H₈O₂

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Cl^- + C₅H₈O₂ = (Cl^- • C₅H₈O₂)

Free energy of reaction

 +  = ( • )

By formula: I^- + C₅H₈O₂ = (I^- • C₅H₈O₂)

=

By formula: C₅H₈O₂ = C₆H₁₀O₃

=

By formula: C₅H₈O₂ = C₅H₈O₂

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Data compiled by: NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center, William E. Wallace, director

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UV/Visible spectrum

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Data compiled by: Victor Talrose, Eugeny B. Stern, Antonina A. Goncharova, Natalia A. Messineva, Natalia V. Trusova, Margarita V. Efimkina

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References

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Taft and Bordwell, 1988
Taft, R.W.; Bordwell, F.G., Structural and Solvent Effects Evaluated from Acidities Measured in Dimethyl Sulfoxide and in the Gas Phase, Acc. Chem. Res., 1988, 21, 12, 463, https://doi.org/10.1021/ar00156a005 . [all data]

Strohmeier and Höhne, 1952
Strohmeier, W.; Höhne, I., Keto-Enol-Umwandlung des Acetylacteons in Gaszustand, Z. Naturfor., 1952, 7B, 184. [all data]

Cumming and Kebarle, 1978
Cumming, J.B.; Kebarle, P., Summary of gas phase measurements involving acids AH. Entropy changes in proton transfer reactions involving negative ions. Bond dissociation energies D(A-H) and electron affinities EA(A), Can. J. Chem., 1978, 56, 1. [all data]

Folkendt, Weiss-Lopez, et al., 1989
Folkendt, M.M.; Weiss-Lopez, B.E.; Chauvel, J.P., Jr.; True, N.S., Gas-Phase 1H NMR Studies of Keto-Enol Tautomerization of Acetylacetone, Methyl Acetoacetate, and Ethyl Acetoacetate, J. Phys. Chem., 1989, 89, 15, 3347, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100261a038 . [all data]

Irikura, 1999
Irikura, K.K., Acetylacetonate (acac) anion in the gas phase: predicted structures, vibrational spectra, and photodetachment energies, Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 1999, 187, 577-587, https://doi.org/10.1016/S1387-3806(98)14192-1 . [all data]

Schweig, Vermeer, et al., 1974
Schweig, A.; Vermeer, H.; Weidner, U., A photoelectron spectroscopic study of keto-enol tautomerism in acetylacetones - a new application of photoelectron spectroscopy, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1974, 26, 229-233. [all data]

Thompson and Allred, 1971
Thompson, D.W.; Allred, A.L., Keto-enol equilibria in 2,4-Pentanedione and 3,3-dideuterio-2,4-pentanedione, J. Phys. Chem., 1971, 75, 433-435. [all data]

Calmon, 1969
Calmon, J.P., Thermodynamic functions of enolization of aliphatic β-diketones, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 1969, 268, 1435-1438. [all data]

French, Ikuta, et al., 1982
French, M.A.; Ikuta, S.; Kebarle, P., Hydrogen bonding of O-H and C-H hydrogen donors to Cl^-. Results from mass spectrometric measurement of the ion-molecule equilibria RH + Cl^- = RHCl^-, Can. J. Chem., 1982, 60, 1907. [all data]

Caldwell, Masucci, et al., 1989
Caldwell, G.W.; Masucci, J.A.; Ikonomou, M.G., Negative Ion Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry - Binding of Molecules to Bromide and Iodide Anions, Org. Mass Spectrom., 1989, 24, 1, 8, https://doi.org/10.1002/oms.1210240103 . [all data]

Folkendt, Weiss-Lopez, et al., 1985
Folkendt, M.M.; Weiss-Lopez, B.E.; Chauvel, J.P., Jr.; True, N.S., Gas-phase ¹H NMR studies of keto-enol tautomerism of acetylacetone, methyl acetoacetate, and ethyl acetoacetate, J. Phys. Chem., 1985, 89, 3347-3352. [all data]

Mines and Thompson, 1975
Mines, G.W.; Thompson, H., Infrared and photoelectron spectra, and keto-enol tautomerism of acetylacetones and acetoacetic esters, Proc. Roy. Soc. London A, 1975, 342, 327-339. [all data]

Bernasconi and Kamararioti, 1986
Bernasconi, C.F.; Kamararioti, A., Nucleophilic addition to olefins. 19. Abnormally high intrinsic barrier in the reaction of piperidine and morpholine with benzylideneacetylacetone, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1986, 108, 24, 7744-7751. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  T	Temperature
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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