The formation thermodynamic properties of crystalline and aqueous inosine have been determined by using a combination of calorimetric techniques. Oxygen bomb calorimetric measurements on crystalline inosine yielded a standard molar enthalpy of combustion of
. From this, a value for the standard molar enthalpy of formation
of −(847.9 ± 4.7) kJ · mol
−1 was obtained. The standard molar heat capacity of crystalline inosine has been measured over the temperature interval 11
T/K
325 by using an adiabatic calorimeter. The heat capacities were fit to a series of polynomials from which smoothed values for the standard thermal properties were calculated for 20
T/K
320. The standard molar entropy
at
T = 298.15 K is (288.0 ± 0.6) J · K
−1 · mol
−1 and the standard molar entropy of formation
is −(1449.6 ± 0.6) J · K
−1 · mol
−1. The standard Gibbs free energy of formation
. By using literature values of the standard molar enthalpy of solution and the saturation molality of inosine(cr), the standard molar thermodynamic properties of aqueous inosine at
T = 298.15 K are found to be
;
; and
. These results are used to calculate standard thermodynamic properties of various aqueous species involving inosine.