Hexachloroacetone

• Formula: C₃Cl₆O
• Molecular weight: 264.750
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C3Cl6O/c4-2(5,6)1(10)3(7,8)9 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: DOJXGHGHTWFZHK-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 116-16-5
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: 2-Propanone, 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexachloro-; Bis(trichloromethyl) ketone; Hexachloropropanone; HCA; Kureha HCA; 1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexachloro-2-propanone; 1,1,1,3,3,3-Hexachloropropanone; 2-Propanone, hexachloro-; Hexachloro-2-propanone; Acetone, hexachloro-; GC-1106; Perchloro-2-propanone; HCA weedkiller; UN 2661; NSC 6852; Perchloroacetone
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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
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

Reduced pressure boiling point

Enthalpy of vaporization

Enthalpy of fusion

IR Spectrum

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Gas Phase Spectrum

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Additional Data

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Spectrum

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References

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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]

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

Plaush, 1967
Plaush, A.C., Thermodynamic Properties of Hexafluoroacetone from 12°K to Its Normal Boiling Point. An Estimate of the Barrier to Internal Rotation from the Entropy of the Gas, J. Chem. Phys., 1967, 47, 1, 44, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1711888 . [all data]

Boublik, Fried, et al., 1984
Boublik, T.; Fried, V.; Hala, E., The Vapour Pressures of Pure Substances: Selected Values of the Temperature Dependence of the Vapour Pressures of Some Pure Substances in the Normal and Low Pressure Region, 2nd ed., Elsevier, New York, 1984, 972. [all data]

Murphy, 1964
Murphy, Kevin P., The Vapor Pressure of Hexoafluoro and Pentafluorochloroacetone., J. Chem. Eng. Data, 1964, 9, 2, 259-260, https://doi.org/10.1021/je60021a041 . [all data]

Morse, Ayscough, et al., 1955
Morse, A.T.; Ayscough, P.B.; Leitch, L.C., ORGANIC FLUORINE COMPOUNDS: I. AN IMPROVED SYNTHESIS OF HEXAFLUOROACETONE, Can. J. Chem., 1955, 33, 3, 453-457, https://doi.org/10.1139/v55-055 . [all data]

Domalski and Hearing, 1996
Domalski, Eugene S.; Hearing, Elizabeth D., Heat Capacities and Entropies of Organic Compounds in the Condensed Phase. Volume III, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1996, 25, 1, 1, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.555985 . [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Tboil	Boiling point
  ΔfusH	Enthalpy of fusion
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization

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