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Chemical data page

This page provides supplementary chemical data on cyclohexane.

Material Safety Data Sheet

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Structure and properties

Structure and properties
Index of refraction, nD 1.4262 at 20 °C
Abbe number ?
Dielectric constant, εr 2.023 ε0 at 20 °C
Bond strength ?
Bond length 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 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

Phase behavior
Triple point 279.48 K (6.33 °C), 5.388 kPa
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)
Solid properties
Std enthalpy change
of formation, ΔfHsolid 		? kJ/mol
Standard molar entropy,
Ssolid 		? 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
Liquid properties
Std enthalpy change
of formation, ΔfHliquid 		–156.4 kJ/mol
Standard molar entropy,
Sliquid 		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)
Gas properties
Std enthalpy change
of formation, ΔfHgas 		–123.1 kJ/mol
Standard molar entropy,
Sgas 		298.19 J/(mol K)
Heat capacity, cp 105.3 J/(mol K)
van der Waals' constants a = 2311 L kPa/mol
b = 0.1424 liter per mole

Vapor pressure of liquid

P in mm Hg 1 10 40 100 400 760 1520 3800 7600 15200 30400 45600
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.

log10 of Cyclohexane vapor pressure. Uses formula: log e ⁡ P m m H g = {\displaystyle \scriptstyle \log _{e}P_{mmHg}=} log e ⁡ ( 760 101.325 ) − 9.200978 log e ⁡ ( T + 273.15 ) − 6354.898 T + 273.15 + 75.65058 + 7.374814 × 10 − 06 ( T + 273.15 ) 2 {\displaystyle \scriptstyle \log _{e}({\frac {760}{101.325}})-9.200978\log _{e}(T+273.15)-{\frac {6354.898}{T+273.15}}+75.65058+7.374814\times 10^{-06}(T+273.15)^{2}} obtained from CHERIC

Distillation data

Vapor-liquid Equilibrium
for Cyclohexane/Benzene
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
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
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
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
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

UV-Vis
λmax ? nm
Extinction coefficient, ε ?
IR
Major absorption bands 1055–1000 cm
NMR
Proton NMR  
Carbon-13 NMR  
Other NMR data  
MS
Masses of
main fragments 		 

References

  1. Morrison, Robert Thornton; Boyd, Robert Neilson: Organic Chemistry 2nd ed. p. 288
  2. Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, 10th ed. pp. 1669–1674
  3. 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
  4. Lange's Handbook of Chemistry 10th ed, pp. 1522–1524
  5. "Pure Component Properties" (Queriable database). Chemical Engineering Research Information Center. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
  6. ^ "Binary Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Data" (Queriable database). Chemical Engineering Research Information Center. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
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