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bromochlorofluoromethane
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Bromochlorofluoromethane or fluorochlorobromomethane, is a chemical compound and trihalomethane derivative with the chemical formula . As one of the simplest possible stable chiral compounds, it is useful for fundamental research into this area of chemistry. However, its relative instability to hydrolysis, and lack of suitable functional groups, made separation of the enantiomers of bromochlorofluoromethane especially challenging, and this was not accomplished until almost a century after it was first synthesised, in March 2005, though it has now been done by a variety of methods. More recent
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It is catalogued under topics including Chirality and Halomethanes.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Chemical data
- Formula
- CHBrClF
- Molecular weight
- 147.37 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- bromo-chloro-fluoromethane
- SMILES
- C(F)(Cl)Br
- InChIKey
- YNKZSBSRKWVMEZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 2.2
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- trihalomethane
- Mass
- 145.893418
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- canonical SMILES
- C(F)(Cl)Br
- chemical formula
- CHBrClF
- Commons category
- Bromochlorofluoromethane
- boiling point
- 37.0
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Encyclopedic overview
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Bromochlorofluoromethane or fluorochlorobromomethane, is a chemical compound and trihalomethane derivative with the chemical formula . As one of the simplest possible stable chiral compounds, it is useful for fundamental research into this area of chemistry. However, its relative instability to hydrolysis, and lack of suitable functional groups, made separation of the enantiomers of bromochlorofluoromethane especially challenging, and this was not accomplished until almost a century after it was first synthesised, in March 2005, though it has now been done by a variety of methods. More recent research using bromochlorofluoromethane has focused on its potential use for experimental measurement of parity violation, a major unsolved problem in quantum physics. For example, the S enantiomer is predicted to be lower in energy by about (56.97 mHz), and the frequency of the vibrational mode should be about 2.4 mHz lower for the R-enantiomer.
==See also== Bromochlorodifluoromethane, used in fire extinguishers Bromochlorofluoroiodomethane, a theoretical derivative with iodine replacing the hydrogen
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