1,3,5,7-Cyclooctatetraene

• Formula: C₈H₈
• Molecular weight: 104.1491
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C8H8/c1-2-4-6-8-7-5-3-1/h1-8H/b2-1-,3-1-,4-2-,5-3-,6-4-,7-5-,8-6-,8-7- Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: KDUIUFJBNGTBMD-BONZMOEMSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 629-20-9
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: [8]Annulene; Cyclooctatetraene; UN 2358
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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
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Enthalpy of vaporization

Antoine Equation Parameters

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

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Enthalpy of fusion

Entropy of fusion

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard

View reactions leading to C₈H₈⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

De-protonation reactions

C₈H₇^- +  =

By formula: C₈H₇^- + H⁺ = C₈H₈

References

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Data compilation copyright by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on behalf of the U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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

Reppe, Schlichting, et al., 1948
Reppe, W.; Schlichting, O.; Klager, K.; Toepel, T., Cyclizing Polymerization of Acetylene I. Cyclooctatetraene, Justus Liebigs Ann. Chem., 1948, 560, 1-92. [all data]

Cope and Bailey, 1948
Cope, A.C.; Bailey, W.J., Cyclic Polyolefins II. Synthesis of Cyclooctatetraene from Chloroprene, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1948, 70, 2305. [all data]

Scott, Gross, et al., 1949
Scott, D.W.; Gross, M.E.; Oliver, G.D.; Huffman, H.M., Cyclooctatetraene: low-temperature heat capacity, heat of fusion, heat of vaporization, vapor pressure and entropy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1949, 71, 1634. [all data]

Scott, Gross, et al., 1949, 2
Scott, D.W.; Gross, M.E.; Oliver, G.D.; Huffman, H.M., Cyclooctatetraene: Low-temperature heat capacity, heat of fusion, heat of vaporization, vapor pressure and entropy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1949, 71, 1634-16. [all data]

Scott, Gross, et al., 1949, 3
Scott, D.W.; Gross, M.E.; Oliver, G.D.; Huffman, H.M., Cycloöctatetraene: low-temperature heat capacity, heat of fusion, heat of vaporization, vapor pressure and entropy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1949, 71, 1634-1636. [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]

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]

Miller, Viggiano, et al., 2002
Miller, T.M.; Viggiano, A.A.; Miller, A.E.S., Electron attachment and detachment: Cyclooctatetraene, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2002, 106, 43, 10200-10204, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp0205214 . [all data]

Kato, Lee, et al., 1997
Kato, S.; Lee, H.S.; Gareyev, R.; Wenthold, P.G.; Lineberger, W.C.; DePuy, C.H.; Bierbaum, V.M., Experimental and Computational Studies of the Structures and Energetics of Cyclooctatetraene and Its Derivatives, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1997, 119, 33, 7863, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja971433d . [all data]

Wenthold, Hrovat, et al., 1996
Wenthold, P.G.; Hrovat, D.A.; Borden, W.T.; Lineberger, W.C., Transition State Spectroscopy of Cyclooctatetraene, Science, 1996, 272, 5267, 1456, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.272.5267.1456 . [all data]

Denault, Chen, et al., 1998
Denault, J.W.; Chen, G.D.; Cooks, R.G., Electron affinity of 1,3,5,7-cyclooctatetraene determined by the kinetic method, J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 1998, 9, 11, 1141-1145, https://doi.org/10.1016/S1044-0305(98)00092-0 . [all data]

Gygax, Peters, et al., 1979
Gygax, R.; Peters, H.L.; Brauman, J.I., Photodetachment of electrons from anions of high symmetry. Electron photodetachment spectra of the cycloctatetraenyl and perinaphthenyl anions, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1979, 101, 2567. [all data]

Wentworth and Ristau, 1969
Wentworth, W.E.; Ristau, W., Thermal Electron Attachment Involving a Change in Molecular Geometry, J. Phys. Chem., 1969, 73, 7, 2126, https://doi.org/10.1021/j100727a005 . [all data]

Fu and Dunbar, 1978
Fu, E.W.; Dunbar, R.C., Photodissociation spectroscopy and structural rearrangements in ions of cyclooctatetraene, styrene and related molecules, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1978, 100, 2283. [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]

Dewar, Harget, et al., 1969
Dewar, M.J.S.; Harget, A.; Haselbach, E., Cyclooctatetraene and ions derived from it, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1969, 91, 7521. [all data]

Al-Joboury and Turner, 1964
Al-Joboury, M.I.; Turner, D.W., Molecular photoelectron spectroscopy. Part II. A summary of ionization potentials, J. Chem. Soc., 1964, 4434. [all data]

Watanabe, Nakayama, et al., 1962
Watanabe, K.; Nakayama, T.; Mottl, J., Ionization potentials of some molecules, J. Quant. Spectry. Radiative Transfer, 1962, 2, 369. [all data]

Franklin and Carroll, 1969
Franklin, J.L.; Carroll, S.R., The effect of molecular structure on ionic decomposition. I. An electron impact study of seven C₈H₈ isomers, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1969, 91, 5940. [all data]

Lifshitz and Malinovich, 1984
Lifshitz, C.; Malinovich, Y., Time resolved photoionization mass spectrometry in the millisecond range, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Processes, 1984, 60, 99. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  EA	Electron affinity
  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  Ttriple	Triple point temperature
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔfusS	Entropy of fusion
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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