Mercury, chloromethyl-

• Formula: CH₃ClHg
• Molecular weight: 251.08
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/CH3.ClH.Hg/h1H3;1H;/q;;+1/p-1 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: BABMCXWQNSQAOC-UHFFFAOYSA-M Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 115-09-3
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Caspan; Chloromethylmercury; Mercury methyl chloride; Methyl meruric chloride; Methylmercuric chloride; Methylmercury chloride; Monomethylmercury chloride; CH3HgCl; Methylmercury(2) chloride; Methylmerkurichlorid; Methyl mercury, chloro; Methylmercury monochloride; NSC 19998
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TRC - Thermodynamics Research Center, NIST Boulder Laboratories, Chris Muzny director
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos
MS - José A. Martinho Simões

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Individual Reactions

 (l) + Cl₂Hg (cr) = 2 (cr)

By formula: C₂H₆Hg (l) + Cl₂Hg (cr) = 2CH₃ClHg (cr)

Gas phase ion energetics data

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LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

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Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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References

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Martinho Simões
Martinho Simões, J.A., Private communication (see http://webbook.nist.gov/chemistry/om/). [all data]

Plato, 1972
Plato, C., DSC as a general method for determining purity and heat of fusion of high-purity organic chemicals, Anal. Chem., 1972, 44, 1531. [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]

Pilcher and Skinner, 1983
Pilcher, G.; Skinner, H.A., Thermochemistry of organometallic compounds, 1983, 43-90, https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470771686.ch2 . [all data]

Hartley, Pritchard, et al., 1950
Hartley, K.; Pritchard, H.O.; Skinner, H.A., Thermochemistry of metallic alkyls. III.?mercury dimethyl and mercury methyl halides, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1950, 46, 1019, https://doi.org/10.1039/tf9504601019 . [all data]

Charnley and Skinner, 1951
Charnley, T.; Skinner, H.A., 424. Measurements of the vapour pressures of some alkylmercury halides. The latent heats of sublimation of methyl- and ethyl- mercury halides, J. Chem. Soc., 1951, 1921, https://doi.org/10.1039/jr9510001921 . [all data]

Charnley and Skinner, 1951, 2
Charnley, T.; Skinner, H.A., J. Chem. Soc., 1951, 1921.. [all data]

Pedley and Rylance, 1977
Pedley, J.B.; Rylance, J., Computer Analysed Thermochemical Data: Organic and Organometallic Compounds, University of Sussex, Brigton, 1977. [all data]

Cox and Pilcher, 1970
Cox, J.D.; Pilcher, G., Thermochemistry of Organic and Organometallic Compounds in Academic Press, New York, 1970. [all data]

Baidin, Chizhov, et al., 1981
Baidin, V.N.; Chizhov, Y.V.; Timoshenko, M.M.; Sokolikova, O.K.; Grishin, Y.K.; Ustynyuk, Y.A., The photoelectron spectra of alkylmercury chlorides, J. Struct. Chem., 1981, 22, 616, In original 164. [all data]

Baidin, Chizhov, et al., 1981, 2
Baidin, V.N.; Chizhov, Y.V.; Timoshenko, M.M.; Ustynyuk, Y.A.; Kritskaya, I.I., He(I) photoelectronic spectra of organic compounds with a mercury atom attached to an sp2 hybridized carbon, Bull. Acad. Sci. USSR, Div. Chem. Sci., 1981, 2362. [all data]

Glockling, Irwin, et al., 1976
Glockling, F.; Irwin, J.G.; Morrison, R.J.; Sweeney, J.J., A mass spectroscopic study of organomercurials and mercuric halides, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 1976, 19, 267. [all data]

Gowenlock, Haynes, et al., 1962
Gowenlock, B.G.; Haynes, R.M.; Majer, J.R., Electron impact measurement on some organomercury compounds, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans., 1962, 58, 1905. [all data]

Baidin, Timoshenko, et al., 1985
Baidin, V.N.; Timoshenko, M.M.; Chizhov, Y.V.; Ustynyuk, Y.A.; Kritskaya, I.I., Photoelectron spectra nad the structure of organomercury compounds, J. Organomet. Chem., 1985, 292, 55. [all data]

Eland, 1970
Eland, J.H.D., Photoelectron spectra and chemical bonding of mercury(II) compounds, Intern. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Phys., 1970, 4, 37. [all data]

Arah and McDuffie, 1976
Arah, R.D.; McDuffie, B., Anal. Chem., 1976, 48, 195. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Tfus	Fusion (melting) point
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔfH°solid	Enthalpy of formation of solid at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔsubH°	Enthalpy of sublimation at standard conditions

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