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Piperylene

Piperylene or 1,3-pentadiene is an organic compound with the formula CH3−CH=CH−CH=CH2. It is a volatile, flammable hydrocarbon. It is one of the five positional isomers of pentadiene. It is one of several industrially significant 1,3-dienes, but it has received much less attention than butadiene and isoprene. It consists of two isomers, Z and E, but these are rarely distiguighed.

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Names
Preferred IUPAC name
(3E)-Penta-1,3-diene
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChEBI
ChemSpider
ECHA InfoCard 100.007.269
EC Number
  • 207-995-2
RTECS number
  • RZ2464000
UNII
UN number 1993 3295 1010
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Properties
C5H8
Molar mass 68.117 g/mol
Appearance Colorless liquid
Density 0.683 g/cm3
Melting point −87 °C (−125 °F; 186 K) E-isomer
Boiling point 42 °C (108 °F; 315 K) E-isomer
Hazards
GHS labelling:
GHS02: FlammableGHS07: Exclamation markGHS08: Health hazard
Danger
H225, H304, H315, H319, H335
P210, P233, P240, P241, P242, P243, P261, P264, P271, P280, P301+P310, P302+P352, P303+P361+P353, P304+P340, P305+P351+P338, P312, P321, P331, P332+P313, P337+P313, P362, P370+P378, P403+P233, P403+P235, P405, P501
Flash point < −30 °C (−22 °F; 243 K)
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Piperylene or 1,3-pentadiene is an organic compound with the formula CH3−CH=CH−CH=CH2. It is a volatile, flammable hydrocarbon. It is one of the five positional isomers of pentadiene. It is one of several industrially significant 1,3-dienes, but it has received much less attention than butadiene and isoprene.2 It consists of two isomers, Z and E, but these are rarely distiguighed.

Synthesis and formation

The dominant route to piperylene is by steam cracking of naphtha]]. This makes up about 10% of the C5 stream.3

Other routes

Piperylene is a product of the decarboxylation of sorbic acid.4

Piperylene is obtained as a byproduct of ethylene production from crude oil, combustion of biomass, waste incineration and exhaust gases. It is used as a monomer in the manufacturing of plastics, adhesives and resins.5

Reactions

Piperylene behaves as a typical diene. It forms a sulfolene upon treatment with sulfur dioxide.6 It participates in Ziegler-Natta polymerization.7 It is converted to 2-Methyltetrahydrofuran by reaction with water. It undergoes hydrocyanation.3

Piperylene can be deprotonated using butyl lithium, providing lithium pentadienyl.8

See also

See also

References

References

  1. Safety (MSDS) data for piperylene Archived 2007-10-11 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
  2. Schmidt, Roland; Griesbaum, Karl; Behr, Arno; Biedenkapp, Dieter; Voges, Heinz-Werner; Garbe, Dorothea; Paetz, Christian; Collin, Gerd; Mayer, Dieter; Höke, Hartmut (2014). "Hydrocarbons". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. pp. 1–74. doi:10.1002/14356007.a13_227.pub3. ISBN 978-3-527-30673-2.
  3. Herrmann, Norman; Vogelsang, Dennis; Behr, Arno; Seidensticker, Thomas (2018). "Homogeneously Catalyzed 1,3-Diene Functionalization – A Success Story from Laboratory to Miniplant Scale". ChemCatChem. 10 (23): 5342–5365. doi:10.1002/cctc.201801362.
  4. Erich Lück, Martin Jager, Nico Raczek (2000). "Sorbic Acid". Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. doi:10.1002/14356007.a24_507. ISBN 3527306730.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. Piperylene Archived 2009-05-13 at the Wayback Machine at Shell Chemicals. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
  6. Robert L. Frank, Raymond P. Seven (1949). "Isoprene Cyclic Sulfone". Organic Syntheses. 29: 59. doi:10.15227/orgsyn.029.0059.
  7. Ricci, Giovanni; Pampaloni, Guido; Sommazzi, Anna; Masi, Francesco (2021). "Dienes Polymerization: Where We Are and What Lies Ahead". Macromolecules. 54 (13): 5879–5914. doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00004.
  8. Seyferth, Dietmar; Pornet, Jacques (1980). "(2,4-Pentadienyl)trimethylsilane: A useful pentadienylation reagent". The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 45 (9): 1721–1722. doi:10.1021/jo01297a053.