Experimental and Computational Study of the Thermodynamic Properties of 9-Fluorenone and 9-Fluorenol

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2012

Authors

Manuel J S Monte (Author) FCUP; Rafael Notario (Author) Other; Maria M G Calvinho (Author) Other; Ana R R P Almeida (Author) Other; Luisa M P F Amaral (Author) FCUP; Ana I M C L Lobo Ferreira (Author) FCUP; Maria D M C R Ribeiro da Silva (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data

Vol. 57 No. 8

Pages: 2486-2496

ISSN: 0021-9568

Publisher: American Chemical Society

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FOS: Engineering and technology > Chemical engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-002-5XT

DOI: 10.1021/je300584m

Abstract (EN): This report presents a study of the thermodynamic properties of 9-fluorenone and 9-fluorenol. The standard enthalpies of formation of 9-fluorenone and 9-fluorenol in the crystalline phase at T = 298.15 K were determined from the energies of combustion in oxygen as -(11.4 +/- 3.8) kJ.mol(-1) and -(66.3 +/- 2.9) kJ.mol(-1), respectively. Vapor pressures of the two compounds were measured at several temperatures using two different experimental methods (Knudsen effusion for crystalline-phase vapor pressures and a static method for crystalline- and liquid-phase vapor pressures), which yielded reliable values of the enthalpies of sublimation, vaporization, and fusion. The sublimation and fusion enthalpies were also determined using calorimetric methods. The enthalpies of sublimation at T = 298.15 K were derived from the static vapor pressure measurements as (95.1 +/- 0.5) kJ.mol(-1) for 9-fluorenone and (108.3 +/- 0.5) kJ.mol(-1) for 9-fluorenol. The results enabled the determination of the standard Gibbs energy of the aerobic reactions of oxidation of fluorene to 9-fluorenol and 9-fluorenone and of the oxidation of 9-fluorenol to 9-fluorenone. Values of the standard enthalpies of formation in the gas phase were also calculated.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 11