Table 5. Boiling Points and GC Retention Times of the Oligomers.
α-olefin | characteristic | dimer | trimer | tetramer | pentamer | hexamer |
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1-hexene | bp (°C/mm Hg) | 80/7 | 120/0.5 | 145/0.2 | 190/0.2 | |
GC retention time, min | 6.4 | 8.7 | 13.7 | 16.8 | 19.6 | |
1-octene | bp (°C/mm Hg) | 105/0.8 | 166/0.8 | 212/0.8 | 242/0.2 | |
GC retention time, min | 6.4 | 14.5 | 19.5 | 22.7 | 25.3 | |
1-decene | bp (°C/mm Hg) | 125/0.5 | 182/0.3 | 235/0.3 | 290/0.2 | |
GC retention time, min | 13.6 | 19.3 | 24.3 | 27.5 | 30.0 |