Acetaldehyde

• Formula: C₂H₄O
• Molecular weight: 44.0526
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2H4O/c1-2-3/h2H,1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: IKHGUXGNUITLKF-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 75-07-0
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• Other names: Acetic aldehyde; Ethanal; Ethyl aldehyde; CH3CHO; Acetaldehyd; Aldehyde acetique; Aldeide acetica; NCI-C56326; Octowy aldehyd; Acetylaldehyde; Rcra waste number U001; UN 1089; NSC 7594
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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
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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.

Weast and Grasselli, 1989
CRC Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds, 2nd Editon, Weast,R.C and Grasselli, J.G., ed(s)., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 1989, 1. [all data]

Majer and Svoboda, 1985
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Buckingham and Donaghy, 1982
Buckingham, J.; Donaghy, S.M., Dictionary of Organic Compounds: Fifth Edition, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1982, 1. [all data]

Shiner, Boskin, et al., 1955
Shiner, V.J.; Boskin, M.J.; Smith, M.L., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1955, 77, 5525. [all data]

Vogel, Cresswell, et al., 1952
Vogel, A.I.; Cresswell, W.T.; Jeffery, G.H.; Leicester, J., Physical Properties and Chemical Constitution XXIV. Aliphatic Aldoximes Ketoximes, and Ketoxime, O-Alkyl Ethers, N,N-Dialkylhydrazines, Aliphatic Ketazines, Mono- and Di-alkylaminopropionitriles, Alk, J. Chem. Soc., 1952, 1952, 514. [all data]

Baccaredda and Pino, 1951
Baccaredda; Pino, Gazz. Chim. Ital., 1951, 81, 205. [all data]

Christensen and Smith, 1950
Christensen; Smith, J.O., Pressure-enthalpy diagram for acetaldehyde, Ind. Eng. Chem., 1950, 42, 2128. [all data]

Dilke, Eley, et al., 1950
Dilke, M.H.; Eley, D.D.; Sheppard, M.G., A survey of heats of mixing of some organic compounds with aluminum chloride, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1950, 46, 261. [all data]

Lauder, 1948
Lauder, I., Studies on hemiacetal formation: I the system acetaldhyde + water, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1948, 44, 729. [all data]

Connor, Elving, et al., 1947
Connor, A.Z.; Elving, P.J.; Steingiser, S., Specific heat of acetaldehyde and acetaldehyde dibutyl acetal, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1947, 69, 1532. [all data]

Friend and Hargreaves, 1944
Friend, J.N.; Hargreaves, W.D., LXXI. viscosities and rheochors of aldehydes, nitriles and of secondary and tertiary amines., Philos. Mag., 1944, 35, 619. [all data]

Coomber and Partington, 1938
Coomber, D.I.; Partington, J.R., Studies in dielectric polarisation part xxiii the dipole moments of some aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes and of anthrone, J. Chem. Soc., 1938, 1938, 1444. [all data]

Dolliver, Gresham, et al., 1938
Dolliver, M.A.; Gresham, T.L.; Kistiakowsky, G.B.; Smith, E.A.; Vaughan, W.E., Heats of Organic Reactions VI. Heats of Hydrogenation of Some Oxygen- Containing Compounds, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1938, 60, 440. [all data]

Staveley and Hinshelwood, 1936
Staveley, L.A.K.; Hinshelwood, C.N., Detection of Reaction Chains by Small Amounts of Nitric Oxide. Thermal Decomposition of Acetaldehyde and of Propaldehyde, J. Chem. Soc., 1936, 1936, 812. [all data]

Zanetti and Sickman, 1936
Zanetti, J.E.; Sickman, D.V., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1936, 58, 2034. [all data]

Drake and Cooke, 1932
Drake, N.L.; Cooke, G.B., Org. Synth., 1932, 12, 48. [all data]

Biltz, Fischer, et al., 1930
Biltz, W.; Fischer, W.; Wunnenberg, E., Molecular and Atomic Volumes. The Volume Requirements of Crystalline Organic Compounds and Low Temperatures, Z. Phys. Chem., Abt. A, 1930, 151, 13-55. [all data]

Adams and Adkins, 1925
Adams, E.W.; Adkins, H., Catalysis in Acetal Formation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1925, 47, 1358-67. [all data]

Maass and Boomer, 1922
Maass, O.; Boomer, E.H., Vapor Densities at Low Pressures and Over and Extended Temperature Range. I. The Properties of Ethylene Oxide Compared to Oxygen Compounds of Similar Molecular Weight, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1922, 44, 8, 1709-1728, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01429a013 . [all data]

Timmermans, 1913
Timmermans, J., Bull. Soc. Chim. Belg., 1913, 27, 334. [all data]

De Leeuw, 1911
De Leeuw, H.L., The System Acetaldehyde-Ethyl Alcohol, Z. Phys. Chem., Stoechiom. Verwandtschaftsl., 1911, 77, 284. [all data]

Sabatier and Mailhe, 1909
Sabatier, P.; Mailhe, A., New Applications of the General Method of Hydrogenation with Various Metals, Ann. Chim. Phys., 1909, 16, 70. [all data]

Carrara and Ferrari, 1906
Carrara, G.; Ferrari, G., Gazz. Chim. Ital., 1906, 36, 1419. [all data]

Sabatier and Senderens, 1903
Sabatier, P.; Senderens, J.B., C. R. Hebd. Seances Acad. Sci., 1903, 137, 302. [all data]

Perkin, 1884
Perkin, W.H., On the Magnetic Rotary Polarisation of Compounds in Relation to their Chemical Consitution; with Observations on the Preparation and Relative Densities of the Bodies Examined, J. Chem. Soc., 1884, 45, 421-580. [all data]

Kopp, 1854
Kopp, H., Specific volumes of liquid compounds, Justus Liebigs Ann. Chem., 1854, 92, 1-32. [all data]

Kopp, 1848
Kopp, H., Justus Liebigs Ann. Chem., 1848, 64, 212. [all data]

Notes

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