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chlorine dioxide
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chemical compound
OverviewAI-generated
Chlorine dioxide is a chemical compound with the formula ClO₂. It has a molecular mass of 66.959 and a weight of 67.45. The substance features a canonical SMILES structure of O=Cl[O] and an ionization energy of 10.36. Its physical properties include a density of 1.6, a melting point range from -74 to -59, and a boiling point of 52.
The compound exhibits a vapor pressure of 1 and a solubility of 0.3. Safety guidelines indicate an immediately dangerous to life or health level of 13.8. Exposure limits are set at a time-weighted average of 0.3 and a short-term limit of 0.9. It is associated with the NIOSH Pocket Guide ID 0116 and PubChem CID 24870.
Literature references include 1897 PubMed entries for chlorine dioxide. The subject is referenced by 598 other encyclopedia articles. Additional identifiers include an InChIKey of OSVXSBDYLRYLIG-UHFFFAOYSA-N, an XLogP value of 1.4, and a topological polar surface area of 18.1. It has zero hydrogen bond donors and one hydrogen bond acceptor, with a net charge of 0.
Synthesized by Vinony from 27 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, PubChem, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Chemical data
- Formula
- ClO2
- Molecular weight
- 67.45 g/mol
- SMILES
- O=Cl[O]
- InChIKey
- OSVXSBDYLRYLIG-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 1.4
- Polar surface area
- 18.1 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Research
1,897 papers- Application of chlorine dioxide and its disinfection mechanism.Archives of microbiology · 2024
- Chlorine dioxide-based oxidation processes for water purification：A review.Journal of hazardous materials · 2022
- Chlorine Dioxide: Friend or Foe for Cell Biomolecules? A Chemical Approach.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
- A systematic review on chlorine dioxide as a disinfectant.Journal of medicine and life · 2022
- Application of chlorine dioxide-based hurdle technology to improve microbial food safety-A review.International journal of food microbiology · 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- chlorine
- Mass
- 66.959
- Image
- Chlorine dioxide solution.jpg
Show 13 more facts
- Commons category
- Chlorine dioxide
- chemical formula
- ClO₂
- NIOSH Pocket Guide ID
- 0116
- density
- 1.6
- immediately dangerous to life or health
- 13.8
- melting point
- -59
- boiling point
- 11
- vapor pressure
- 1
- solubility
- 0.3
- ionization energy
- 10.36
- time-weighted average exposure limit
- 0.3
- short-term exposure limit
- 0.9
- canonical SMILES
- O=Cl[O]
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Encyclopedic overview
Names
IUPAC name Dioxygen chloride
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chlorine dioxide” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.