Ethane
C2H6, 30.07 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.
Identifiers
- Molecular formula
- C₂H₆
- Molecular weight
- 30.07 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 30.04695 g/mol
- CC
- InChI=1S/C2H6/c1-2/h1-2H3
- OTMSDBZUPAUEDD-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
- -127.5 °F at 760 mmHg (USCG, 1999)
- -88.6 °C
- -89 °C
- -88.6 °C @760 [mm Hg]
- Melting Point
- -279.9 °F (USCG, 1999)
- -182.794 °C
- -183 °C
- -172 °C
- Flash Point
- -211 °F (USCG, 1999)
- -211 °F
- -135 °C (-211 °F) - closed cup
- Flammable gas
- Solubility
- In water, 60.2 mg/L at 25 °C
- 60.4 ug/mL water at 20 °C
- 46 mL/100 mL alcohol at 4 °C
- Very soluble in benzene
- Soluble in ether
- 60.2 mg/L @ 25 °C (exp)
- Solubility in water, ml/100ml at 20 °C: (very poor)
- Density
- 0.546 at -127.48 °F (USCG, 1999) - Less dense than water; will float
- 1.0493 at 0 °C/4 °C (air = 1) or 1.3562 g/L; 0.446 at 0 °C/4 °C (liquid)
- % IN SATURATED AIR: 100 AT 25 °C, 760 MM HG; DENSITY OF AIR SATURATED WITH VAPOR: 1.04 AT 25 °C, 760 MM HG (AIR= 1)
- 0.446 as liq
- Vapor Pressure
- VP: 1 Pa at -183.3 °C (solid); 10 Pa at -173.2 °C; 100 Pa at -161.3 °C; 1 kPa at -145.3 °C; 10 kPa at -122.8 °C; 100 kPa at -88.8 °C
- Vapor pressure, kPa at 20 °C: 3850
- 760 [mm Hg]
- LogP
- log Kow = 1.81
- 1.810
- 1.81
- Viscosity
- 6.4 at 200 K; 9.4 at 300 K; 12.2 at 400 K; 14.8 at 500 K; 18.1 at 600 K (all in uPa.s)
- Refractive Index
- INDEX OF REFRACTION: 1.0377 @ 0 °C/D & 546 MM HG
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
- 1.0262
- Topological polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Rotatable bonds
- 0
- Molar refractivity
- 11.348 cm³/mol
- Fraction sp³ carbons
- 1
- QED drug-likeness
- 0.3728
What it is made of
Elements
Structure
- Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
- 2
- Total atoms, hydrogen included
- 8
- Rings
- 0
- Aromatic rings
- 0
- Stereocentres
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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 Bimethyl, Dimethyl, Methylmethane, Ethyl hydride, Humulene monoxide, Humulene oxide I, Humulene I epoxide, D-Lys20-Tirzepatide, ETHANE-D, Des-Asp15-Tirzepatide, Des-Leu26-Tirzepatide, ETHANE [HSDB].
Structurally related
Seen alongside it in reaction records
Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as Ethane. This says nothing about structure: most of them are the bases, solvents, ligands and catalysts the chemistry needed, and they are here because somebody put them in the same flask.
Where these values came from
chemistry engine
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.