Cyclohexane (data page)
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This page provides supplementary chemical data on cyclohexane.
Material Safety Data Sheet
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Structure and properties
| Template:Chembox header | Structure and properties | |
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| Index of refraction, nD | 1.4262 at 20 °C |
| Abbe number | ? |
| Dielectric constant, εr | 2.023 ε0 at 20 °C |
| Bond strength | ? |
| Bond length[1] | 230 pm H–C |
| Bond angle | 109.5° H–C–H 109.5 °C–C–C 109.5° H–C–C |
| Magnetic susceptibility | ? |
| Surface tension | 27 dyn/cm at 10 °C 25.3 dyn/cm at 20 °C 15.7 dyn/cm at 80 °C |
| Viscosity[2] | 1.03 mPa·s at 17 °C 0.93 mPa·s at 22 °C 0.86 mPa·s at 27 °C 0.75 mPa·s at 35 °C |
Thermodynamic properties
| Template:Chembox header | Phase behavior | |
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| Triple point | 279.48 K (6.33 °C), 5.388 kPa[3] |
| Critical point | 554 K (281 °C), 4070 kPa |
| Std enthalpy change of fusion, ΔfusH |
2.68 kJ/mol crystal I → liquid |
| Std entropy change of fusion, ΔfusS |
9.57 J/(mol·K) crystal I → liquid |
| Std enthalpy change of vaporization, ΔvapH |
32 kJ/mol |
| Std entropy change of vaporization, ΔvapS |
111.80 J/(mol·K) |
| Template:Chembox header | Solid properties | |
| Std enthalpy change of formation, ΔfH |
? kJ/mol |
| Standard molar entropy, S |
? J/(mol K) |
| Heat capacity, cp | ? J/(mol K) |
| Enthalpy of transition, ΔtrsH |
6.7 kJ/mol at –87.0 °C crystal II → crystal I |
| Entropy of transition, ΔtrsS |
36 J/(mol·K) at –87.0 °C crystal II → crystal I |
| Template:Chembox header | Liquid properties | |
| Std enthalpy change of formation, ΔfH |
–156.4 kJ/mol |
| Standard molar entropy, S |
204 J/(mol K) |
| Enthalpy of combustion, ΔcH |
–3919.6 kJ/mol |
| Heat capacity, cp | 156 J/(mol K) or 1.85 J/(g K) |
| Template:Chembox header | Gas properties | |
| Std enthalpy change of formation, ΔfH |
–123.1 kJ/mol |
| Standard molar entropy, S |
298.19 J/(mol K) |
| Heat capacity, cp | 105.3 J/(mol K) |
| van der Waals' constants[4] | a = 2311 L2 kPa/mol2 b = 0.1424 liter per mole |
Vapor pressure of liquid
| Template:Chembox header | P in mm Hg | 1 | 10 | 40 | 100 | 400 | 760 | 1520 | 3800 | 7600 | 15200 | 30400 | 45600 |
| Template:Chembox header | T in °C | –45.3(s) | –15.9(s) | 6.7 | 25.5 | 60.8 | 80.7 | 106.0 | 146.4 | 184.0 | 228.4 | — | — |
Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 44th ed. The "(s)" annotation indicates equilibrium temperature of vapor over solid. Otherwise value is equilibrium temperature of vapor over liquid.

Distillation data
| Vapor-liquid Equilibrium for Cyclohexane/Benzene[6] P = 760 mm Hg | ||
| BP Temp. °C |
% by mole benzene | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | vapor | |
| 79.5 | 10.1 | 13.1 |
| 78.9 | 17.1 | 21.1 |
| 78.4 | 25.6 | 29.3 |
| 77.8 | 34.3 | 37.6 |
| 77.5 | 42.8 | 44.5 |
| 77.4 | 52.5 | 52.9 |
| 77.4 | 57.1 | 56.4 |
| 77.6 | 66.5 | 64.5 |
| 77.9 | 75.9 | 72.8 |
| 78.2 | 81.0 | 77.7 |
| 78.6 | 86.3 | 83.4 |
| 79.3 | 94.5 | 92.6 |
| Vapor-liquid Equilibrium for Cyclohexane/n-Hexane[6] P = 101.0 kPa | ||
| BP Temp. °C |
% by mole n-hexane | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | vapor | |
| 80.60 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 78.87 | 7.9 | 12.12 |
| 78.15 | 12.50 | 18.30 |
| 77.36 | 18.06 | 25.19 |
| 76.85 | 21.65 | 29.30 |
| 76.29 | 25.92 | 34.13 |
| 75.85 | 29.39 | 37.92 |
| 75.29 | 33.52 | 42.38 |
| 75.29 | 37.86 | 46.93 |
| 74.23 | 41.63 | 50.71 |
| 73.58 | 46.72 | 55.63 |
| 73.11 | 50.66 | 59.21 |
| 72.26 | 59.26 | 67.28 |
| 71.11 | 69.43 | 76.07 |
| 70.45 | 76.18 | 81.40 |
| 69.05 | 90.70 | 93.13 |
| 68.64 | 100.00 | 100.00 |
| Vapor-liquid Equilibrium for Cyclohexane/Acetic acid[6] P = 101.325 kPa | ||
| BP Temp. °C |
% by mole acetic acid | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | vapor | |
| 79.60 | 2.75 | 6.31 |
| 79.32 | 5.20 | 9.85 |
| 78.84 | 101.2 | 15.01 |
| 78.53 | 14.06 | 18.04 |
| 78.50 | 21.39 | 21.98 |
| 78.81 | 35.30 | 26.20 |
| 79.13 | 49.30 | 29.00 |
| 79.33 | 56.10 | 30.00 |
| 81.44 | 74.60 | 33.50 |
| 81.66 | 75.80 | 34.20 |
| 85.18 | 86.70 | 40.00 |
| 90.52 | 92.50 | 49.20 |
| 91.90 | 93.20 | 51.70 |
| 95.52 | 94.57 | 57.82 |
| 98.94 | 95.96 | 63.33 |
| 105.75 | 97.84 | 75.69 |
| 113.16 | 99.33 | 90.67 |
| Vapor-liquid Equilibrium for Cyclohexane/Ethanol[6] P = 760 mm Hg | ||
| BP Temp. °C |
% by mole ethanol | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | vapor | |
| 73.99 | 2.0 | 17.5 |
| 69.08 | 3.0 | 30.2 |
| 66.94 | 6.5 | 35.8 |
| 66.08 | 8.1 | 36.3 |
| 66.37 | 8.6 | 36.5 |
| 65.59 | 12.5 | 38.8 |
| 65.23 | 15.1 | 39.6 |
| 65.12 | 20.6 | 40.8 |
| 64.93 | 25.8 | 41.5 |
| 64.87 | 28.3 | 41.8 |
| 64.84 | 31.5 | 42.6 |
| 64.78 | 36.6 | 43.0 |
| 64.77 | 40.3 | 43.1 |
| 64.77 | 43.1 | 43.1 |
| 64.78 | 44.4 | 43.8 |
| 64.81 | 50.0 | 44.3 |
| 64.88 | 55.7 | 45.5 |
| 65.01 | 61.3 | 46.0 |
| 64.99 | 62.1 | 45.8 |
| 65.25 | 67.8 | 47.5 |
| 65.56 | 73.8 | 50.5 |
| 66.03 | 76.3 | 49.6 |
| 65.93 | 77.6 | 51.5 |
| 66.40 | 78.1 | 49.8 |
| 66.90 | 80.9 | 54.5 |
| 67.26 | 83.3 | 57.8 |
| 67.98 | 85.3 | 59.5 |
| 68.86 | 88.1 | 62.3 |
| 69.44 | 89.8 | 65.3 |
| 70.11 | 90.9 | 67.8 |
| 71.42 | 92.9 | 72.5 |
| 72.48 | 95.1 | 77.8 |
| Vapor-liquid Equilibrium for Cyclohexane/Isopropanol[6] P = 760 mm Hg | ||
| BP Temp. °C |
% by mole cyclohexane | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | vapor | |
| 78.71 | 2.7 | 11.2 |
| 76.91 | 7.0 | 21.8 |
| 74.96 | 11.6 | 28.3 |
| 74.80 | 12.0 | 27.6 |
| 72.28 | 19.1 | 37.1 |
| 70.19 | 30.6 | 48.9 |
| 69.35 | 47.3 | 55.5 |
| 69.20 | 51.6 | 57.0 |
| 69.14 | 51.6 | 57.2 |
| 69.11 | 51.8 | 56.8 |
| 68.80 | 52.8 | 58.3 |
| 69.01 | 53.8 | 58.2 |
| 69.08 | 57.1 | 58.2 |
| 69.10 | 70.8 | 62.7 |
| 69.42 | 74.2 | 64.9 |
| 69.45 | 78.4 | 66.0 |
| 69.66 | 80.7 | 67.3 |
| 70.11 | 86.2 | 69.7 |
| 70.31 | 87.3 | 70.9 |
| 71.50 | 92.1 | 77.3 |
| 74.74 | 97.8 | 85.0 |
| 76.73 | 99.5 | 89.3 |
Spectral data
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| λmax | ? nm |
| Extinction coefficient, ε | ? |
| Template:Chembox header | IR | |
| Major absorption bands | 1055–1000 cm−1 |
| Template:Chembox header | NMR | |
| Proton NMR | |
| Carbon-13 NMR | |
| Other NMR data | |
| Template:Chembox header | MS | |
| Masses of main fragments |
References
- ↑ Morrison, Robert Thornton; Boyd, Robert Neilson: Organic Chemistry 2nd ed. p. 288
- ↑ Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, 10th ed. pp. 1669–1674
- ↑ Fink H.L.: The Heat Capacity and Entropy. Heats of Transition, Fusion and Vaporization and the Vapor Pressures of Cyclohexane. The Vibrational Frequencies of Alicyclic Ring Systems. J.Am.Chem.Soc. 65 (1943) 1135-1139
- ↑ Lange's Handbook of Chemistry 10th ed, pp. 1522–1524
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