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fluoroform
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Fluoroform, or trifluoromethane, is the chemical compound with the formula . It is a hydrofluorocarbon as well as being a part of the haloforms, a class of compounds with the formula (X = halogen) with C3v symmetry. Fluoroform is used in diverse applications in organic synthesis. It is not an ozone depleter but is a greenhouse gas.
Chemical data
- Formula
- CHF3
- Molecular weight
- 70.014 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- fluoroform
- SMILES
- C(F)(F)F
- InChIKey
- XPDWGBQVDMORPB-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 1.5
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 3
- Formal charge
- 0
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Fluoroform, or trifluoromethane, is the chemical compound with the formula . It is a hydrofluorocarbon as well as being a part of the haloforms, a class of compounds with the formula (X = halogen) with C3v symmetry. Fluoroform is used in diverse applications in organic synthesis. It is not an ozone depleter but is a greenhouse gas.
== Synthesis == About 20 million kg per year are produced industrially as both a by-product of and precursor to the manufacture of Teflon. It is produced by reaction of chloroform with HF:
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