Methane, chloromethoxy-

• Formula: C₂H₅ClO
• Molecular weight: 80.513
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2H5ClO/c1-4-2-3/h2H2,1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: XJUZRXYOEPSWMB-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 107-30-2
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Ether, chloromethyl methyl; Chlorodimethyl ether; Chloromethoxymethane; Chloromethyl methyl ether; Methoxychloromethane; Methoxymethyl chloride; Methyl chloromethyl ether; Monochlorodimethyl ether; Monochloromethyl methyl ether; CH3OCH2Cl; Chlormethyl methyl ether; Chlordimethylether; CMME; Ether methylique monochlore; Ether, dimethyl chloro; Methyl chloromethyl ether, anhydrous; Rcra waste number U046; UN 1239; NSC 21208
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  • IR Spectrum
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Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

Enthalpy of vaporization

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: John E. Bartmess

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Individual Reactions

C₂H₄ClO^- +  =

By formula: C₂H₄ClO^- + H⁺ = C₂H₅ClO

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

De-protonation reactions

C₂H₄ClO^- +  =

By formula: C₂H₄ClO^- + H⁺ = C₂H₅ClO

IR Spectrum

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Data compiled by: Coblentz Society, Inc.

• Not specified, most likely a prism, grating, or hybrid spectrometer.; (NO SPECTRUM, ONLY SCANNED IMAGE IS AVAILABLE)
• GAS (100 mmHg DILUTED TO A TOTAL PRESSURE OF 600 mmHg WITH NITROGEN); DOW KBr FOREPRISM; DIGITIZED BY NIST FROM HARD COPY (FROM TWO SEGMENTS); 4 cm^-1 resolution
• GAS (100 mmHg, N2 ADDED, TOTAL PRESSURE 600 mmHg); DOW KBr FOREPRISM-GRATING; DIGITIZED BY NIST FROM HARD COPY (FROM TWO SEGMENTS)
  2, 2 cm^-1 resolution
• SOLUTION (10% CCl4 FOR 3800-1340, 10% CS2 FOR 1340-450 CM^-1); DOW KBr FOREPRISM-GRATING; DIGITIZED BY COBLENTZ SOCIETY (BATCH I) FROM HARD COPY; 2 cm^-1 resolution

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Data compiled by: NIST Mass Spectrometry Data Center, William E. Wallace, director

Spectrum

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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]

Lecat, 1947
Lecat, M., Orthobaric Azeotropes of Sulfides, Bull. Cl. Sci., Acad. R. Belg., 1947, 33, 160-82. [all data]

Lecat, 1927
Lecat, M., New binary azeotropes: 6th list, Ann. Soc. Sci. Bruxelles, Ser. B, 1927, 47, 63-71. [all data]

Stephenson and Malanowski, 1987
Stephenson, Richard M.; Malanowski, Stanislaw, Handbook of the Thermodynamics of Organic Compounds, 1987, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3173-2 . [all data]

Paulino and Squires, 1991
Paulino, J.A.; Squires, R.R., Carbene Anion Complexes - Unusual Structural and Thermochemical Features of alpha-Halocarbanions in the Gas Phase, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1991, 113, 5, 1845, https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00005a067 . [all data]

Vereschagin, Salikova, et al., 1980
Vereschagin, A.N.; Salikova, A.M.; Zverev, V.V.; Saitkulova, F.G.; Villem, Y.Y., Physical properties, conformations, and intramolecular interactions of α, α-dichlorodimethyl ether, Bull. Acad. Sci. USSR, Div. Chem. Sci., 1980, 997. [all data]

Haney and Franklin, 1969
Haney, M.A.; Franklin, J.L., Excess energies in mass spectra of some oxygen-containing organic compounds, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans., 1969, 65, 1794. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Tboil	Boiling point
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization

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