Carbon tetrabromide

• Formula: CBr₄
• Molecular weight: 331.627
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/CBr4/c2-1(3,4)5 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: HJUGFYREWKUQJT-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 558-13-4
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• Other names: Methane, tetrabromo-; Carbon bromide (CBr4); Methane tetrabromide; Tetrabromomethane; CBr4; Carbon bromide; Bromid uhlicity; UN 2516; NSC 6179
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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid

Constant pressure heat capacity of solid

References

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Bickerton, Minas Da Piedade, et al., 1984
Bickerton, J.; Minas Da Piedade, M.E.; Pilcher, G., Enthalpy of formation of tetrabromomethane by rotating-bomb calorimetry, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1984, 16, 661-668. [all data]

Kurbatov, 1948
Kurbatov, V.Ya., Heat capacity of liquids. 2. Heat capacity and the temperature dependence of heat capacity from halogen derivatives of acylic hydrocarbons, Zh. Obshch. Kim., 1948, 18, 372-389. [all data]

Marshall, Staveley, et al., 1956
Marshall, J.G.; Staveley, L.A.K.; Hart, K.R., A thermodynamic investigation of the transitions in carbon tetrabromide and ammonium chloride, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1956, 52, 19-31. [all data]

Frederick and Hildebrand, 1939
Frederick, K.J.; Hildebrand, J.H., Specific heats and heats of fusion and transition of carbon tetrabromide, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1939, 61, 1555-1558. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,liquid	Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid
  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

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