Terephthalic acid

• Formula: C₈H₆O₄
• Molecular weight: 166.1308
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C8H6O4/c9-7(10)5-1-2-6(4-3-5)8(11)12/h1-4H,(H,9,10)(H,11,12) Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: KKEYFWRCBNTPAC-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 100-21-0
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: 1,4-Benzenedicarboxylic acid; p-Benzenedicarboxylic acid; p-Dicarboxybenzene; p-Phthalic acid; WR 16262; Benzene, 1,4-dicarboxylic acid; Acide terephtalique; Benzene, p-dicarboxylic acid; TPA; Kyselina tereftalova; TA 12; Ta-33mp; 1,4-Dicarboxybenzene; NSC 36973; p-Carboxybenzoic acid
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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Constant pressure heat capacity of solid

Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Enthalpy of sublimation

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled by: Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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UV/Visible spectrum

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References

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Karyakin, Rabinovich, et al., 1978
Karyakin, N.V.; Rabinovich, I.B.; Sokolov, L.B., Thermodynamics of the synthesis of isomeric poly(phenylenephthalamides), Vysokomol. Soedin. Ser. B, 1978, 20, 662-666. [all data]

Schwabe and Wagner, 1961
Schwabe, K.; Wagner, W., Verbrennungs- und bildungswarmen der drei isomeren phthalsauren, Z. Electrochem., 1961, 65, 812-815. [all data]

Hirsbrunner, 1934
Hirsbrunner, H., Uber das gleichgewicht der thermischen dissoziation der salicylsaure, Helv. Chim. Acta, 1934, 17, 477-504. [all data]

Satoh and Sogabe, 1941
Satoh, S.; Sogabe, T., The heat capacities of some organic compounds containing nitrogen and the atomic heat of nitrogen. (4), Sci., Pap. Inst. Phys. Chem. Res. (Tokyo), 1941, 38, 246-251. [all data]

Sabbah and Perez, 1999
Sabbah, Raphaël; Perez, Laurence, Étude thermodynamique des acides phtalique, isophtalique et téréphtalique, Revue canadienne de chimie, 1999, 77, 9, 1508-1513, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjc-77-9-1508 . [all data]

Kozyro, Maksimuk, et al., 2000
Kozyro, A.A.; Maksimuk, Yu.V.; Kabo, G.Ya., Thermodynamics of vaporization of phthalic acids and additivity of enthalpies and entropies of sublimation of benzocarboxylic acids, Zh. Prikl. Khim. (S.-Peterburg), 2000, 73, 2, 199. [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]

Kraus, Beranek, et al., 1962
Kraus, M.; Beranek, L.; Kochloeff, K.; Bazant, V., Chem. Prum., 1962, 12, 649. [all data]

Lucchesi and Lewis, 1968
Lucchesi, Claude A.; Lewis, W.T., Latent heat of sublimation of terephthalic acid from differential thermal analysis data, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1968, 13, 3, 389-391, https://doi.org/10.1021/je60038a026 . [all data]

Benoit, 1973
Benoit, F., Substituent effects in mass spectrometry. III. Substituent effects in the dissociation of the molecular ions of para and meta subtituted benzoic acids, Org. Mass Spectrom., 1973, 7, 295. [all data]

Lang (editor), 1968
Lang (editor), L., Absorption Spectra in the Ultraviolet and Visible Region, 1968, 11, 103. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Cp,solid	Constant pressure heat capacity of solid
  ΔcH°solid	Enthalpy of combustion of solid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°solid	Enthalpy of formation of solid at standard conditions
  ΔsubH	Enthalpy of sublimation
  ΔsubH°	Enthalpy of sublimation at standard conditions

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