Cycloalkanes thermochemistry

The enthalpy of fomation of two such species has been measured, namely the cyclopropane and cycloheptane derivatives. The difference between the values for these two species, both as solids, is 238.1 kJmol . Is this difference plausible Consider the difference between the enthalpies of formation of the parent cycloalkanes as solids, 194 kJ mol . The ca 44 kJ mol discrepancy between these two differences seems rather large. However, there are idiosyncracies associated with the enthalpies of formation of compounds with three-membered rings and almost nothing is known at all about the thermochemistry of compounds with seven-membered rings. Rather, we merely note that a seemingly well-defined synthesis of cycloheptyl methyl ketone was shown later to result in a mixture of methyl methylcyclohexyl ketones, and superelectrophilic carbonylation of cycloheptane resulted in the same products as methylcyclohexane, namely esters of 1-methylcyclohexanecarboxylic acid. The difference between the enthalpies of formation of the unsubstituted alicyclic hydrocarbons cycloheptane and methylcyclohexane as solids is 33 kJmol . This alternative structural assignment hereby corrects for most of the above 44 kJ mol discrepancy in the enthalpies of formation of the two oximes. More thermochemical measurements are needed, of oximes and cycloheptanes alike. 

What can be said about the thermochemistry of methylated cyclic ketones in any phase other than liquid In that we would have discussed gas-phase species if the data were available, what we are really asking is what can be said about the species of interest as solids , Let us generalize this to see what can be said about the thermochemistry of cyclic ketones as solids. In that the cyclic ketones in the previous section were all formally quite strain-free derivatives of cyclopentanone or cyclohexanone, let us now consider only such species and their cycloalkane analogs. There are no enthalpy-of-fusion data available for cyclopentanone. For cyclohexanone, the temperature-uncorrected fusion enthalpy is about 1.3 kJmol-1—we arbitrarily ignore in this discussion enthalpies of any crystal - different crystal phase enthalpy. The same treatment for cyclohexane discloses the fusion enthalpy of 2.7 kJmol-1. Accordingly, the earlier reported value of 638(6) = 104.4 for the gas phase is sequentially modified to ca 115 kJ mol-1 for the liquid and to 113 kJmol-1 for the solid. For 2-norbomanone, adamantanone and diamantanone (39a, 42 and 43), the gas-phase differences of 115.7 6.8, 96.0 5.1 and 90.6 3.2 become for the solids 124.4 6.8, 116.9 4.5 and 97.8 3.1 kJmol-1. Very roughly, 639( ) is some 10 kJmol-1 more positive for solids than for gases and 639(8) is about 113 kJmol-1 for all of the solids discussed here. 

Today no one professionally involved in chemical science or engineering has any doubts about the importance of thermodynamics and thermochemistry. Now, however, the danger is that the field is being taken for granted it is assumed that all the problems have been solved, all the important data measured, and what cannot be measured has been adequately calculated. In this chapter we review the thermochemistry of the alkane and cycloalkane hydrocarbons, with some attention to the current status of our knowledge in this important field and to the problems that remain to be solved. 

The thermochemistry of alkanes and cycloalkanes Alkane Rossini and coworkers Pittam and Pilcher... 

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