Mellitic anhydride
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| 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
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CompTox Dashboard (EPA)
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| Properties | |
| C12O9 | |
| Molar mass | 288.123 g·mol−1 |
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Mellitic anhydride, the anhydride of mellitic acid, is an organic compound with formula C12O9.
Mellitic anhydride is an oxide of carbon (oxocarbon), like CO2, CO, and C3O2. It is a white sublimable solid, apparently obtained by Liebig and Wohler in 1830 in their study of mellite ("honeystone"), 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hans Meyer, Karl Steiner (1913.). "Über ein neues Kohlenoxyd C12O9 (A new carbon oxide C12O9)". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. 46: 813–815.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|year=(help)CS1 maint: year (link) - ^ 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.
- ^ 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,
- ^ Ermer, O. and Neudörfl, J. (2000), Structure of Mellitic Trianhydride. HelV. Chim. Acta 83, 300-309.