The parameters of the liquid-gas critical point are important constants in determining the behavior of fluids. This table lists the critical temperature, pressure, and molar volume, as well as the normal boiling point, for over 850 organic substances. Column definitions for the table are as follows.
Column heading | Definition |
Name | Name of organic compound; compounds are listed alphabetically by name |
Mol. form. | Molecular formula of compound |
Tbp | Normal boiling point in K at a pressure of 101.325 kPa (1 atmosphere); “sp” following the value indicates a sublimation point (temperature at which the solid is in equilibrium with the gas at a pressure of 101.325 kPa) |
Tc | Critical temperature, in K |
Pc | Critical pressure, in MPa |
Vc | Critical molar volume, in units cm3 mol–1 |
Ref. | Reference number; see text |
The listed values of the critical constants are critically evaluated using the NIST ThermoData Engine, TDE (Ref. 1), designed to implement the dynamic data evaluation concept (Refs. 2–5). This concept requires large electronic databases capable of storing essentially all relevant experimental data known to date with detailed descriptions of metadata and uncertainties. The combination of these electronic databases with expert-system software, designed to automatically generate recommended property values based on available experimental and predicted data, leads to the ability to produce critically evaluated data dynamically or “to order.” The evaluated data have been generated only for compounds for which experimental data for critical properties are available. Group contribution methods such as Joback-Reid (Ref. 6), Constantinou-Gani (Ref. 7), Marrero-Pardillo (Ref. 8), and Wilson-Jasperson (Ref. 9) as well as quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) methods (Ref. 5) were used within the TDE environment to validate available experimental data. Each recommended value in the table is characterized with a combined expanded uncertainty (Ref. 10) (level of confidence, approximately 95%) listed in parentheses. Only references to original experimental data actually used by TDE to generate critically evaluated data are indicated for each compound.
The values of the normal boiling temperatures provided in the table along with the combined expanded uncertainties listed in parentheses have also been critically evaluated using TDE. Additional details on the determination of the normal boiling temperatures using TDE can be found in the “Physical Constants of Organic Compounds” table in Section 3. The remaining values of the normal boiling temperatures (without uncertainties) are taken from the same table.
Name | Synonym | Mol. form. | CAS Reg. No. | Mol. wt. | Tbp/K | Tc/K | Pc/MPa | Vc/cm3 mol-1 | Ref. (see text) |
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Acetaldehyde | Ethanal | C2H4O | 75-07-0 | 44.052 | 294.0(6) | 462(8) | 7.5(10) | 154(5) | 11-13 |
Acetic acid | Ethanoic acid | C2H4O2 | 64-19-7 | 60.052 | 391.1(2) | 593(2) | 5.79(3) | 171(2) | 14-21 |
Acetic anhydride | Acetyl acetate | C4H6O3 | 108-24-7 | 102.089 | 412.7(3) | 606(1) | 4.00(8) | 294(12) | 22 |
Acetone | 2-Propanone | C3H6O | 67-64-1 | 58.079 | 329.23(7) | 508.1(2) | 4.7(1) | 221(20) | 18, 23-31 |
Acetonitrile | Methyl cyanide | C2H3N | 75-05-8 | 41.052 | 354.8(2) | 545.47(7) | 4.88(5) | 173(59) | 32-40 |
Acetophenone | Methyl phenyl ketone | C8H8O | 98-86-2 | 120.149 | 475.3(2) | 709.5(7) | 4.01(5) | 373(40) | 11, 41 |
Acetylene | Ethyne | C2H2 | 74-86-2 | 26.037 | 188.5 sp | 308.4(4) | 6.24(4) | 119(11) | 42-48 |
Acrylonitrile | Propenenitrile | C3H3N | 107-13-1 | 53.063 | 350.4(2) | 540(2) | 4.6(1) | 211(10) | 49 |
Allene | C3H4 | 463-49-0 | 40.064 | 238.4(3) | 394(4) | 6.5(7) | 167(8) | 50 | |
Allyl alcohol | 2-Propen-1-ol | C3H6O | 107-18-6 | 58.079 | 370.1(5) | 539.8(6) | 5.76(4) | 222(9) | 51 |
Allylamine | 2-Propen-1-amine | C3H7N | 107-11-9 | 57.095 | 327(2) | 540.0(7) | 4.83(3) | 217(11) | 52 |
Allyl ethyl ether | C5H10O | 557-31-3 | 86.132 | 338(4) | 518(10) | 320(10) | 21 | ||
2-Aminobiphenyl | C12H11N | 90-41-5 | 169.222 | 571.5(2) | 838(2) | 3.52(3) | 548(99) | 53 | |
2-(2-Aminoethoxy)ethanol | Diglycolamine | C4H11NO2 | 929-06-6 | 105.136 | 496.3(1) | 721(4) | 4.88(10) | 333(19) | 54 |
N-(2-Aminoethyl)ethanolamine | C4H12N2O | 111-41-1 | 104.150 | 515(5) | 739(2) | 4.53(9) | 340(17) | 55 | |
Aniline | Benzenamine | C6H7N | 62-53-3 | 93.127 | 457.3(4) | 704(7) | 5.3(1) | 291(3) | 39, 40, 58-60 |
Anisole | Methoxybenzene | C7H8O | 100-66-3 | 108.138 | 426.8(2) | 646.1(2) | 4.2(1) | 355(12) | 25, 39, 40, 49 |
Benzene | [6]Annulene | C6H6 | 71-43-2 | 78.112 | 353.23(7) | 562.0(1) | 4.90(2) | 257(11) | 19, 27, 28, 34, 61-97 |
Benzeneacetic acid | Phenylacetic acid | C8H8O2 | 103-82-2 | 136.149 | 541(2) | 766(8) | 3.9(3) | 372(16) | 98 |