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Diphenylmethane

C13H12, 168.239 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

Organic — aromatic hydrocarbon8 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
C₁₃H₁₂
Molecular weight
168.239 g/mol
Exact mass
168.0939 g/mol
SMILES
c1ccc(Cc2ccccc2)cc1
InChI
InChI=1S/C13H12/c1-3-7-12(8-4-1)11-13-9-5-2-6-10-13/h1-10H,11H2
InChIKey
CZZYITDELCSZES-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
264.5 °Cmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 563
264.5 °C @760 [mm Hg]measured · reference compound database
Melting Point
25.4 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.) CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 91st ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press Inc., 2010-2011, p. 3-218
Flash Point
130 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
266 °F (130 °C) (CLOSED CUP)measured · National Fire Protection Association; Fire Protection Guide to Hazardous Materials. 14TH Edition, Quincy, MA 2010, p. 325-54
Solubility
In water, 14.1 mg/L at 25 °Cmeasured · Yalkowsky, S.H., He, Yan, Jain, P. Handbook of Aqueous Solubility Data Second Edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 2010, p. 945
In water, 14.5 mg/Lmeasured · Pearlman RS et al; J Phys Chem Ref Data 13: 555-62 (1984)
Freely soluble in alcohol, ether, chloroform, hexane, benzene; insoluble in liquid ammoniameasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 563
>10% in both ethyl ether, ethanol and chloroform.measured · Weast, R.C. and M.J. Astle. CRC Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds. Volumes I and II. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press Inc. 1985., p. V1 841
Density
1.3421 at 10 °C/4 °C (solid); 1.0008 at 26 °C/4 °C (liquid)measured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 563
1.008 @25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
0.00821 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
Vapor pressure = 1 mm Hg at 76 °C, 10 mm Hg at 122.8 °C, 40 mm Hg at 157.8 °C, 100 mm Hg at 186.3 °C, 400 mm Hg at 237.5 °Cmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 563
0.00821 mm Hg at 25 °Cmeasured · Jones AH; J Chem Eng Data 5:196-200 (1960)
1 [mm Hg] @76 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
LogP
log Kow = 4.14measured · Hansch, C., Leo, A., D. Hoekman. Exploring QSAR - Hydrophobic, Electronic, and Steric Constants. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society., 1995.
4.22measured · reference compound database
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.57683 at 20 °C/Dmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 2006., p. 563

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
3.2774calculated · 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
2calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
55.69 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
0.0769calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.6452calculated · 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
13
Total atoms, hydrogen included
25
Rings
2
Aromatic rings
2
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Aromatic ring

    A flat six-membered ring with delocalised electrons.

Matched by structural pattern, not by a measurement.

The molecule in three dimensions

Rotate and inspect the atoms. Loaded only when you ask, so the page stays light.

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 Diphenylmethane yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it Benzylbenzene, Ditan, Ditane, Benzene, 1,1'-methylenebis-, Diphenyl methane, Methane, diphenyl-, 1,1'-Dimethylenebis(benzene), Benzene, (phenylmethyl)-, 1,1'-METHYLENEBISBENZENE, 2,4-dibromo-6-((2,3-dibromo-4,5-dihydroxyphenyl)methyl)benzene-1,3,5-triol, Benzene, benzyl-, 1,1'-methylenedibenzene.

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

  • chemistry engine

    structure perception

No matching record was found in the currently indexed sources (reference compound database)..

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.