Chloromethyl cyanide

• Formula: C₂H₂ClN
• Molecular weight: 75.497
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2H2ClN/c3-1-2-4/h1H2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: RENMDAKOXSCIGH-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 107-14-2
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• Other names: Chloroacetonitrile; Acetonitrile, chloro-; α-Chloroacetonitrile; Chloracetonitrile; Monochloroacetonitrile; Monochloromethyl cyanide; 2-Chloroacetonitrile; CH2ClCN; Chloroethanenitrile; USAF KF-5; UN 2668; Acetonitrile, 2-chloro-; NSC 6180
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Phase change data

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Data compiled by: Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: John E. Bartmess

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Individual Reactions

C₂HClN^- +  =

By formula: C₂HClN^- + H⁺ = C₂H₂ClN

References

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Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., 1990
Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals, Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Milwaukee WI, 1990, 1. [all data]

Weast and Grasselli, 1989
CRC Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds, 2nd Editon, Weast,R.C and Grasselli, J.G., ed(s)., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 1989, 1. [all data]

Poutsma, Upshaw, et al., 2002
Poutsma, J.C.; Upshaw, S.D.; Squires, R.R.; Wenthold, P.G., Absolute heat of formation and singlet-triplet splitting for HCCN, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2002, 106, 6, 1067-1073, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp013653q . [all data]

Hacaloglu, Suzer, et al., 1988
Hacaloglu, J.; Suzer, S.; Oster, T.; Illenberger, E., Negative Ion Formation in Fluoroacetonitrile and Chloroacetonitrile following Low Energy Electron Impact, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1988, 153, 2-3, 268, https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2614(88)85224-2 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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