2,3-Butanediol

• Formula: C₄H₁₀O₂
• Molecular weight: 90.1210
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C4H10O2/c1-3(5)4(2)6/h3-6H,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: OWBTYPJTUOEWEK-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 513-85-9
• Chemical structure:
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• Species with the same structure:
  • DL-2,3-Butanediol
  • levo-butane-2,3-diol
• Stereoisomers:
  • 2,3-Butanediol, [S-(R*,R*)]-
  • 2,3-Butanediol, [R-(R*,R*)]-
  • meso-2,3-Butanediol
  • 2,3-Butanediol, rac
  • 2,3-Butanediol, (R,R)
  • 2,3-Butanediol, (R,S)
• Other names: Butane-2,3-diol; Dimethylethylene glycol; 2,3-Butylene glycol; 2,3-Dihydroxybutane; D-2,3-Butane diol; 2,3-Butandiol; 2,3-Butanediol, isomer 1; 2,3-butanodiol; 2.3-Butanediol, isomer 3; 2,3-Butanediol, isomer 2
• Information on this page:
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  • Notes
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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
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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Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., 1990
Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals, Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Milwaukee WI, 1990, 1. [all data]

Mellan, 1962
Mellan, I., Polyhydric Alcohols, Spartan Books: Washington, DC, 1962. [all data]

Walpole, 1911
Walpole, G.S., Proc. R. Soc. London, B, 1911, 83, 272. [all data]

Sabatier and Mailhe, 1907
Sabatier, P.; Mailhe, A., The Direct Hydrogenation of Methyl Diketones, C. R. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci., 1907, 144, 1086. [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]

Stull, 1947
Stull, Daniel R., Vapor Pressure of Pure Substances. Organic and Inorganic Compounds, Ind. Eng. Chem., 1947, 39, 4, 517-540, https://doi.org/10.1021/ie50448a022 . [all data]

Schierholtz and Staples, 1935
Schierholtz, O.J.; Staples, M.L., Vapor Pressures of Certain Glycols, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1935, 57, 12, 2709-2711, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01315a106 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization

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