Acetyl chloride

• Formula: C₂H₃ClO
• Molecular weight: 78.498
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2H3ClO/c1-2(3)4/h1H3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: WETWJCDKMRHUPV-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 75-36-5
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• Other names: Ethanoyl chloride; Acetic chloride; CH3COCl; Acetic acid chloride; Rcra waste number U006; UN 1717; Acetic acid monochloride; UN1717 (DOT)
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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing

Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid

Reaction thermochemistry data

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Individual Reactions

 +  =  + 

By formula: C₂H₃ClO + H₂O = C₂H₄O₂ + HCl

Gas Chromatography

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

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References

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Devore and O'Neal, 1969
Devore, J.A.; O'Neal, H.E., Heats of formation of the acetyl halides and of the acetyl radical, J. Phys. Chem., 1969, 73, 2644-2648. [all data]

Pedley, Naylor, et al., 1986
Pedley, J.B.; Naylor, R.D.; Kirby, S.P., Thermochemical Data of Organic Compounds, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1986, 1-792. [all data]

Pritchard and Skinner, 1950
Pritchard, H.O.; Skinner, H.A., The heats of hydrolysis of the chloro-substituted acetyl chlorides, J. Chem. Soc., 1950, 272-276. [all data]

Cox and Pilcher, 1970
Cox, J.D.; Pilcher, G., Thermochemistry of Organic and Organometallic Compounds, Academic Press, New York, 1970, 1-636. [all data]

Carson and Skinner, 1949
Carson, A.S.; Skinner, H.A., 201. Carbon-halogen bond energies in the acetyl halides, J. Chem. Soc., 1949, 936-939. [all data]

von Reis, 1881
von Reis, M.A., Die specifische Wärme flüssiger organischer Verbindungen und ihre Beziehung zu deren Moleculargewicht, Ann. Physik [3], 1881, 13, 447-464. [all data]

Zenkevich, 2005
Zenkevich, I.G., Experimentally measured retention indices., 2005. [all data]

Zenkevich, 2001
Zenkevich, I.G., Encyclopedia of Chromatography. Derivatization of Amines, Amino Acids, Amides and Imides for GC Analysis, Marcel Dekker, Inc, New York - Basel, 2001, 224. [all data]

Zenkevich and Chupalov, 1996
Zenkevich, I.G.; Chupalov, A.A., New Possibilities of Chromato Mass Pectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds Using Increments of Gas Chromatographic Retention Indices of Molecular Structural Fragments, Zh. Org. Khim. (Rus.), 1996, 32, 5, 656-666. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  Cp,liquid	Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid
  ΔfH°liquid	Enthalpy of formation of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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