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benzyl chloride
Sign in to saveAlso known as chloromethylbenzene, α-chlorotoluene, alpha-chlorotoluene, chloromethyl-benzene, chlorophenylmethane, omega-chlorotoluene, tolyl chloride
aromatic organochlorine compound
Chemical data
- Formula
- C7H7Cl
- Molecular weight
- 126.58 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- chloromethylbenzene
- SMILES
- C1=CC=C(C=C1)CCl
- InChIKey
- KCXMKQUNVWSEMD-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 2.3
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- hydrogen
- Mass
- 126.024
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- melting point
- -43.0
- Commons category
- Benzyl chloride
- boiling point
- 179
- flash point
- 153
- NIOSH Pocket Guide ID
- 0053
- density
- 1.1
- immediately dangerous to life or health
- 51.8
- vapor pressure
- 1
- solubility
- 0.05
- lower flammable limit
- 1.1
- time-weighted average exposure limit
- 5
- ceiling exposure limit
- 5
- median lethal dose (LD50)
- 625
- canonical SMILES
- C1=CC=C(C=C1)CCl
- chemical formula
- C₇H₇Cl
- MCN code
- 2903.99.11
- different from
- benzoyl chloride
- subject has role
- carcinogen
- minimal lethal concentration
- 380
- median lethal concentration (LC50)
- 740
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Encyclopedic overview
Names
Preferred IUPAC name (Chloromethyl)benzene
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “benzyl chloride” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.