Constituent Anthracene | SSHADE

Constituent

Name: Anthracene
Official name: Anthracene

Family: molecular solid
Class: mixed molecular solid
Compound type: organic molecular solid

Constituent abundance in material

Relevance: main - major
Arrangement: single phase
Mass: 0.3 $\pm$ 0.001 $g$
Mass fraction: 0.99 $\pm$ 0.001
Mole fraction: 1.0
Abundance comments: about 1% impurities, but unspecified species (GC), with 2 at 0.52% and 0.24% (higher dilution time) and 7 others < 0.05% (lower and higher dilution times)

Chemical composition

Formula: $C_{14}H_{10}$
Chemical formula: C14H10
Elemental formula: C14 H10
Isotope mixture type: terrestrial abundance

	Formula	Name	Family	Number min-max	Mole fraction	Isotope mole fraction	State	Relevance
	$C_{14}H_{10}$	Anthracene	molecule	1	1.0	1.0	pure	main

Chemical functions and bonds

Chemical functions

	Function	Number	Relevance
	$R=CH-R$	10	main

Chemical bonds

	Bond	Number	Relevance
	$\eqslantgtr C-H$	10	main
	$\eqslantgtr C-C\eqslantless$	9	main
	$>C=C<$	7	main

Class: molecular solids with apolar molecules (01)

Phase type: crystalline

Crystallography

Crystal system: monoclinic
Crystal class: prismatic
Crystal class symbol: 2/m (C2h)
Crystal spacegroup: P2(1)/c

Physical properties

Molar mass: 178.23 $g/mol$
Density: 1.28 $g/cm^3$

Optical properties

Color: white