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chloroethane
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Chloroethane, commonly known as ethyl chloride, is a chemical compound with chemical formula CH3CH2Cl, once widely used in producing tetraethyllead, a gasoline additive. It is a colorless, flammable gas or refrigerated liquid with a faintly sweet odor.
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Chloroethane is a chemical compound with the formula C₂H₅Cl and a molecular mass of 64.008. Its canonical SMILES notation is "CCCl". The substance has a boiling point of 54 and a melting point listed as -218 and -138.7. It exhibits a density of 0.92 and a vapor pressure of 1000. The flash point is -58, with a lower flammable limit of 3.8 and an upper flammable limit of 15.4. Solubility is recorded at 0.6.
Safety data indicates an immediately dangerous to life or health level of 10032 and a time-weighted average exposure limit of 2600. The ionization energy is 10.97, and the electric dipole moment is 2.05. In PubChem records, the compound has a weight of 64.51, an xlogp of 1.2, and a topological polar surface area of 0. It has no hydrogen bond donors or acceptors and carries a charge of 0.
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Chemical data
- Formula
- C2H5Cl
- Molecular weight
- 64.51 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- chloroethane
- SMILES
- CCCl
- InChIKey
- HRYZWHHZPQKTII-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 1.2
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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Research
5,884 papers- Chloroethane.IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans · 1991
- Chloroethane.IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans · 1999
- Genotoxicity studies with chloroethane.Mutation research · 1994
- Bromoethane, chloroethane and ethylene oxide induced uterine neoplasms in B6C3F1 mice from 2-year NTP inhalation bioassays: pathology and incidence data revisited.Experimental and toxicologic pathology : official journal of the Gesellschaft fur Toxikologische Pathologie · 2003
- Ethyl chloride.British journal of anaesthesia · 1965
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Uses
- Obsolete uses
- Niche uses
- Recreational drug
- Safety
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Chloroethane, commonly known as ethyl chloride, is a chemical compound with chemical formula CH3CH2Cl, once widely used in producing tetraethyllead, a gasoline additive. It is a colorless, flammable gas or refrigerated liquid with a faintly sweet odor.
Ethyl chloride was first synthesized by Basil Valentine by reacting ethanol and hydrochloric acid in 1440. Glauber made it in 1648 by reacting ethanol and zinc chloride.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chloroethane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.