p-Xylene

• Formula: C₈H₁₀
• Molecular weight: 106.1650
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C8H10/c1-7-3-5-8(2)6-4-7/h3-6H,1-2H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: URLKBWYHVLBVBO-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 106-42-3
• Chemical structure:
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• Isotopologues:
  • 1,4-Di(methyl-d3)benzene-d4
• Other names: Benzene, 1,4-dimethyl-; p-Dimethylbenzene; p-Xylol; 1,4-Dimethylbenzene; 1,4-Xylene; p-Methyltoluene; para-Xylene; Chromar; Scintillar; 4-Methyltoluene; NSC 72419; UN 1307; 1,4-dimethyl-benzene ( p-xylene)
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Normal melting point

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Data compiled by: Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director

References

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Gaw and Swinton, 1968
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Goates, Ott, et al., 1964
Goates, J.R.; Ott, J.B.; Mangelson, N.F., Solid-Liquid Phase Equil. in Binary Mixt. of Silicon Tetrachloride, Silicon Tetrabromide, and Tin Tetrachloride with Benzene, p-Xylene and p-Dioxane, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1964, 9, 330. [all data]

Kotlyarevskii and Zanina, 1957
Kotlyarevskii, I.L.; Zanina, A.S., Unsaturated Hydrocarbons V. Synthesis of p-Xylene, Zh. Prikl. Khim. (Leningrad), 1957, 30, 1356-6. [all data]

Kotlyarevskii and Zanina, 1957, 2
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Boord, Greenlee, et al., 1946
Boord, C.E.; Greenlee, K.W.; Perilstein, W.L., The Synthesis, Purification and Prop. of Hydrocarbons of Low Mol. Weight, Am. Pet. Inst. Res. Proj. 45, Eighth Annu. Rep., Ohio State Univ., June 30, 1946. [all data]

Forziati, Glasgow, et al., 1946
Forziati, A.F.; Glasgow, A.R.; Willingham, C.B.; Rossini, F.D., Specification adn Properties of 29 Paraffin, 4 Alkylcyclopentanes, 10 Alkylcyclohexanes and 8 Alkylbenzene Hydrocarbons, J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand. (U. S.), 1946, 36, 129. [all data]

Gibbons, Thompson, et al., 1946
Gibbons, L.C.; Thompson, J.F.; Reynolds, T.W.; Wright, J.I.; Chanan, H.H.; Lamberti, J.M.; Hipsher, H.F.; Karabinos, J.V., The Purification and Physical Constants of Aromatic Compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1946, 68, 1130. [all data]

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Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point

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