Today I made Cyclobutadiene C
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4, I had lots of fun making it and it looks really cool. Here is a picture of it and some facts.
1. Cyclobutadiene is so unstable it has a lifetime of of less the five seconds.
2. It is the smallest annulene, a type of hydrocarbon.
I could not find the boiling or melting points of cyclobutadiene.
ReplyDeleteI found just the boiling point. It is 38.6 (plus or minus 7 degrees) Celsius, at normal air pressure. That plus or minus 7 degrees makes it pretty vague, but I guess that it is so shortlived that is as accurate as they can calculate it.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Did you also find the melting point?
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ReplyDeleteOk. I found some info about it. Go to this site, scroll down and click on "properties", and then click on "predicted epi suite". Because of the unstable nature of cyclobutadiene I think all of these numbers are estimates rather than actual experimentally derived numbers.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.chemspider.com/Chemical-Structure.120626.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY-p_-p4peU
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