Dodecahydroxycyclohexane
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Preferred IUPAC name
Cyclohexanedodecol | |
Other names
Dodecahydroxycyclohexane
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(C(OH)2)6 | |
Molar mass | 276.150 g·mol−1 |
Appearance | Colourless crystals (dihydrate) |
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Dodecahydroxycyclohexane is an
molecular formula C6O12H12 or C6(OH)12 or (C(OH)2)6. It is a sixfold geminal diol with a cyclohexane backbone and can be regarded as a sixfold hydrate of cyclohexanehexone
(C6O6).
Dihydrate
The dihydrate C6O12H12·2H2O can be crystallized from methanol as colorless plates or prisms, that decomposes at about 100 °C.[1]
This compound was synthesized by
R. Nietzki and others in 1885,[3] although the product was for a long time assumed to be hexaketocyclohexane with water of crystallization
(C6O6·8H2O).
Indeed, this product is still commonly marketed as cyclohexanehexone octahydrate, hexaketocyclohexane octahydrate, triquinoyl octahydrate and similar names. Its true nature was suspected since the 1950s or earlier,[4] but was confirmed by X-ray diffraction analysis only in 2005.[5]
See also
References
- PMID 31580622. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2009-03-25. Retrieved 2009-03-22.
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- ^ Thomas M. Klapötke; Kurt Polborn; Jan J. Weigand (March 2005). "Dodecahydroxycyclohexane dihydrate" (PDF). Acta Crystallographica E. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-03-04.