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Cyclohexane

C6H12, 84.162 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

verified recordOrganic — hydrocarbon9 measured properties

Drawn from the SMILES. It shows how the atoms are connected — not a photograph of a molecule, and not its shape in space.

Identifiers

Molecular formula
C₆H₁₂
Molecular weight
84.162 g/mol
Exact mass
84.0939 g/mol
IUPAC name
cyclohexane
SMILES
C1CCCCC1
InChI
InChI=1S/C6H12/c1-2-4-6-5-3-1/h1-6H2
InChIKey
XDTMQSROBMDMFD-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Both are open without an account.

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
177.3 °F at 760 mmHg (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
80.7 °C at 760 mm Hgmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Melting Point
43.7 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
6.47 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Density
0.779 at 68 °F (USCG, 1999) - Less dense than water; will floatmeasured · CAMEO Chemicals
0.7781 at 20 °C/4 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Solubility
less than 1 mg/mL at 63 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
In water, 55 mg/L at 25 °Cmeasured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Vapor Pressure
95 mmHg at 68 °F ; 100 mmHg at 77.9 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
96.9 [mmHg]measured · Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
LogP
log Kow = 3.44measured · Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
3.44measured · Human Metabolome Database (HMDB)
Flash Point
-4 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · CAMEO Chemicals
-4 °Fmeasured · Haz-Map, Information on Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases
Viscosity
0.977 mPa.s at 20 °Cmeasured · Campbell ML; Cyclohexane. Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. 7th ed. (1999-2014). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Online Posting Date: Oct 15, 2011.
1.26x10-6 mm²/s at 26 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.42662 at 20 °C/Dmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 94th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2013-2014, p. 3-132

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.

Molecular weight
84.16 g/molcalculated · reference compound database
Average mass of one molecule, from reference compound database.
Exact mass
84.093900383 Dacalculated · reference compound database
Mass of the most common isotopic form.
XLogP3
3.4calculated · reference compound database
Estimated oil/water partition, computed by reference compound database.
Polar surface area
0 Ųcalculated · reference compound database
Polar surface area as computed by reference compound database.
Complexity
15calculated · reference compound database
A rough measure of how intricate the structure is.
H-bond donors
0calculated · reference compound database
H-bond acceptors
0calculated · reference compound database
logP
2.3406calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
0 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
0calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can donate a hydrogen bond.
H-bond acceptors
0calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
0calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
27.702 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
1calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.4223calculated · chemistry engine
Quantitative estimate of drug-likeness (0–1).

What it is made of

Elements

Percentages are of the molecular weight above, worked out the same way the molar mass calculator does it.

Structure

Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
6
Total atoms, hydrogen included
18
Rings
1
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

The molecule in three dimensions

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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

No documented reaction with a written procedure and a source involves Cyclohexane yet.

Other names for it

The systematic name on this record is cyclohexane.

The sources also call it Hexamethylene, Hexahydrobenzene, Hexanaphthene, Cyclohexan, Cykloheksan, Benzene, hexahydro-, Cicloesano, Cyclohexaan, Benzenehexahydride, RCRA waste number U056, Caswell No. 269.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Cyclohexane has a page here yet.

Where these values came from

compound record.

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.