Benzoin
C14H12O2, 212.248 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.
Identifiers
- Molecular formula
- C₁₄H₁₂O₂
- Molecular weight
- 212.248 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 212.08373 g/mol
- O=C(c1ccccc1)C(O)c1ccccc1
- InChI=1S/C14H12O2/c15-13(11-7-3-1-4-8-11)14(16)12-9-5-2-6-10-12/h1-10,13,15H
- ISAOCJYIOMOJEB-UHFFFAOYSA-N
Measured properties
Values somebody obtained from a sample and published. Where two sources report the same property they are both shown, in the units each used — a disagreement between them is information, and averaging it away would be inventing a number neither one gave.
- Boiling Point
- 651 °F at 760 mmHg (NTP, 1992)
- 194
- 194.00 °C. @ 12.00 mm Hg
- at 102.4kPa: 344 °C
- 194 °C (12 mm Hg)
- Melting Point
- 279 °F (NTP, 1992)
- 134-138
- MP:133-4 °C /D & L FORMS/
- 137 °C
- 137 °C
- Solubility
- less than 0.1 mg/mL at 64 °F (NTP, 1992)
- SOL IN 3335 PARTS WATER, MORE SOL IN HOT WATER; SOL IN 5 PARTS PYRIDINE; ACETONE; SOL IN BOILING ALC; SLIGHTLY SOL IN ETHER /DL-FORM/
- SOL IN HOT METHANOL; SOL IN HOT ALCOHOL; ACETONE /D & L-FORMS/
- SOL IN PYRIDINE /D-FORM/
- 0.3 mg/mL at 25 °C
- Solubility in water, g/100ml: 0.03
- insoluble in water; slightly soluble in hot water, oils
- slightly soluble (in ethanol)
- Density
- 1.31 at 68 °F (NTP, 1992) - Denser than water; will sink
- 1.31 g/cm³
- Vapor Pressure
- 1 MM HG @ 135.6 °C
- Vapor pressure, Pa at 136 °C: 133
- LogP
- 2.130
- 2.13
Calculated properties
Derived from the structure rather than from a sample. These are reproducible and they are not measurements: a calculated partition coefficient and a measured one can differ by a long way, and where both exist they are listed apart on purpose.
- logP
- 2.6029
- Topological polar surface area
- 37.3 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 1
- H-bond acceptors
- 2
- Rotatable bonds
- 3
- Molar refractivity
- 62.1743 cm³/mol
- Fraction sp³ carbons
- 0.0714
- QED drug-likeness
- 0.7939
What it is made of
Elements
Structure
- Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
- 16
- Total atoms, hydrogen included
- 28
- Rings
- 2
- Aromatic rings
- 2
- Stereocentres
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
Functional groups
Ketone
Alcohol
Aromatic ring
The molecule in three dimensions
The drawing above is a diagram of what is bonded to what. A molecule is not flat, and the model here is one low-energy shape generated from the connectivity — useful for seeing which groups can reach each other, and not a measured structure. A real sample is a population of conformations, interconverting.
Reactions it appears in
Other names for it
The sources also call it 2-Hydroxy-1,2-diphenylethanone, 2-Hydroxy-2-phenylacetophenone, Benzoylphenylcarbinol, DL-BENZOIN, Ethanone, 2-hydroxy-1,2-diphenyl-, (+-)-Benzoin, Phenylbenzoyl carbinol, alpha-Hydroxy-alpha-phenylacetophenone, alpha-Hydroxybenzyl phenyl ketone, Aerozoin, desyl alcohol, Phenyl-alpha-hydroxybenzyl ketone.
Structurally related
Molecules sharing this formula, or whose fingerprint is at least 40% similar to this one. Similarity is Tanimoto on Morgan fingerprints over this library only — it is a measure of structural overlap, not of how alike they behave.
Where these values came from
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What this page does not claim
The identifiers are what the source record holds, copied rather than recomputed. Measured values are reported as their source gave them, units and all; calculated values are marked as calculated and are not measurements. Where a field is absent the page says so, because a blank cell reads as a zero and a guessed value reads as a fact.
Nothing here is a hazard assessment, a purity statement or advice about handling a sample. A flash point quoted from a safety database is a number somebody published, not a judgement by us about whether this molecule is safe for what you intend.