Cyclooctane

• Formula: C₈H₁₆
• Molecular weight: 112.2126
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C8H16/c1-2-4-6-8-7-5-3-1/h1-8H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: WJTCGQSWYFHTAC-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 292-64-8
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• Other names: Octamethylene
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Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
L - Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi

Ionization energy determinations

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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References

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Holmes and Lossing, 1991
Holmes, J.L.; Lossing, F.P., Ionization energies of homologous organic compounds and correlation with molecular size, Org. Mass Spectrom., 1991, 26, 537. [all data]

Sieck and Mautner(Meot-Ner), 1982
Sieck, L.W.; Mautner(Meot-Ner), M., Ionization energies and entropies of cycloalkanes. Kinetics of free energy controlled charge-transfer reactions, J. Phys. Chem., 1982, 86, 3646. [all data]

Golubitskii, Kulikov, et al., 1979
Golubitskii, A.E.; Kulikov, N.S.; Zyakun, A.M.; Valovoi, V.A.; Alekseev, A.M.; Volkov, V.N., Photoionization mass spectra of alicyclic compounds with various substituents, and their ionization energies and appearance energies, Bull. Acad. Sci. USSR, Div. Chem. Sci., 1979, 11, 2602. [all data]

Puttemans, 1974
Puttemans, J.P., Ionisation de cycloalcanes (C₅ a C₁₂) en spectroscopie photoelectronique et par impact electronique, Ing. Chim. (Brussels), 1974, 56, 64. [all data]

Batich, Bischof, et al., 1973
Batich, C.; Bischof, P.; Heilbronner, E., The photoelectron spectra of cyclooctatetraene and its hydrogenated derivatives, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1973, 1, 333. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  IE (evaluated)

  Recommended ionization energy

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