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:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• 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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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 solid

IR Spectrum

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Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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Gas Chromatography

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References

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Smith, Bjellerup, et al., 1953
Smith, L.; Bjellerup, L.; Krook, S.; Westermark, H., Heats of combustion of organic chloro compounds determined by the "quartz wool" method, Acta Chem. Scand., 1953, 7, 65. [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]

Schjanberg, 1935
Schjanberg, E., Die Verbrennungswarmen und die Refraktionsdaten einiger chlorsubstituierter Fettsauren und Ester., Z. Phys. Chem. Abt. A, 1935, 172, 197-233. [all data]

Pickering, 1895
Pickering, S.U., A comparison of some properties of acetic acid and its chloro- and bromo-derivatives, J. Chem. Soc., 1895, 67, 664-684. [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:
  

  Cp,solid	Constant pressure heat capacity of solid
  ΔcH°solid	Enthalpy of combustion of solid at standard conditions

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