Mellitic anhydride

Mellitic anhydride
IUPAC name

4,9,14-trioxatetracyclo[10.3.0.02,6.07,11]pentadeca-1,6,11-triene-3,5,8,10,13,15-hexone
Identifiers
CAS number 4253-24-1 N
PubChem 255291
Properties
Molecular formula C12O9
Molar mass 288.12 g mol−1
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Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
Infobox references

Mellitic anhydride, anhydride of mellitic acid, is organic compound with formula C12O9.

Mellitic anhydride is oxide of carbon (oxocarbon), like CO2, CO, and C3O2. It is white sublimable solid, apparently obtained by Liebig and Wöhler in 1830 in their study of mellite ("honey stone"), who assigned it the formula C4O3.[1][2][3] The substance was properly characterized in 1913 by H. Meyer and K. Steiner.[4][5] It retains the aromatic character of the benzene ring.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ F. Wohler (1826), Ueber die Honigsteinsäure. Poggendorfs Annalen der Physik und Chemie, volume 83, issue 7, pp. 325–334. Online version accessed on 2009-07-08.
  2. ^ J. Liebig, F. Wöhler (1830), Ueber die Zusammensetzung der Honigsteinsäure Poggendorfs Annalen der Physik und Chemie, vol. 94, Issue 2, pp.161–164. Online version accessed on 2009-07-08.
  3. ^ O. L. Erdmann and R. F. Marchand (1848), Ueber die Mellithsäure. Journal für praktische Chemie, volume, pp. 129–144. Online version accessed on 2009-07-08.
  4. ^ Hans Meyer, Karl Steiner (1913.). "Über ein neues Kohlenoxyd C12O9 (A new carbon oxide C12O9)". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft 46: 813–815. doi:10.1002/cber.191304601105. 
  5. ^ Bugge (1914), Chemie: En neues Kohenoxyd. Review of Meyer and Steiner's discovery of C12O9. Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift, volume 13/29, issue 12, 22 March 1914, p. 188. Online version accessed on 2009-07-09.
  6. ^ Patrick W. Fowler and Mark Lillington (2007), Mellitic Trianhydride, C12O9: The Aromatic Oxide of Carbon. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 47 (3), 905–908,
  7. ^ Ermer, O. and Neudörfl, J. (2000), Structure of Mellitic Trianhydride. HelV. Chim. Acta 83, 300-309.
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