Trichloroacetic Acid

• Formula: C₂HCl₃O₂
• Molecular weight: 163.387
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2HCl3O2/c3-2(4,5)1(6)7/h(H,6,7) Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: YNJBWRMUSHSURL-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 76-03-9
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Acetic acid, trichloro-; Aceto-Caustin; Amchem Grass Killer; Trichloroethanoic acid; TCA; CCl3COOH; Acide trichloracetique; Acido tricloroacetico; Trichloorazijnzuur; Trichloracetic acid; Trichloressigsaeure; Konesta; Kyselina trichloroctova; UN 1839; TKhUK; TKhU; Acetic acid, 2,2,2-trichloro-; NSC 215204
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled by: Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Reaction thermochemistry data

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MS - José A. Martinho Simões
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

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Individual Reactions

C₁₄H₁₀Cl₆O₄Ti (cr) + 2( • 4.40) (solution) =  (cr) + 2 (cr)

By formula: C₁₄H₁₀Cl₆O₄Ti (cr) + 2(HCl • 4.40H₂O) (solution) = C₁₀H₁₀Cl₂Ti (cr) + 2C₂HCl₃O₂ (cr)

 +  =  + 

By formula: C₂Cl₄O + H₂O = C₂HCl₃O₂ + HCl

IR Spectrum

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Gas Chromatography

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References

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Trifel, Smirnov, et al., 1992
Trifel, B.Yu.; Smirnov, V.V.; Gloriozov, I.P.; Kurbanov, N.I.; Mamedov, F.V., Mechanism of reaction between trichloroacetic acid and unsaturated ketones, Vestn. Mosk. Univ. Ser. 2: Khim., 1992, 33, 547-550. [all data]

Dias, Salema, et al., 1984
Dias, A.R.; Salema, M.S.; Martinho Simões, J.A., Rev. Port. Quím., 1984, 26, 227. [all data]

Calhorda, Carrondo, et al., 1986
Calhorda, M.J.; Carrondo, M.A.A.F.C.T.; Dias, A.R.; Domingos, A.M.T.S.; Martinho Simões, J.A.; Teixeira, C., Organometallics, 1986, 5, 660. [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]

Zenkevich, 1996
Zenkevich, I.G., Informational Maitenance of Gas Chromatographic Identification of Organic Compounds in Ecoanalytical Investigations, Z. Anal. Chem., 1996, 51, 11, 1140-1148. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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