Thionyl chloride

• Formula: Cl₂OS
• Molecular weight: 118.970
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/Cl2OS/c1-4(2)3 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: FYSNRJHAOHDILO-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 7719-09-7
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• Other names: Sulfinyl chloride; Sulfur chloride oxide (Cl2SO); Sulfurous dichloride; Sulfurous oxychloride; Thionyl dichloride; SOCl2; Sulfur chloride oxide; UN 1836; Sulfinyl dichloride; Sulfur oxychloride; Sulfur oxychloride (SOCl2); Thionyl chloride (SOCl2)
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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein
B - John E. Bartmess

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Individual Reactions

 + 2 = 4 + 

By formula: C₈H₂₀N₂OS + 2C₄H₁₂ClN = 4C₄H₁₁N + Cl₂OS

 +  = Cl₃OS^-

By formula: Cl^- + Cl₂OS = Cl₃OS^-

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled by: Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi

Ionization energy determinations

References

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Claydon and Mortimer, 1962
Claydon, A.P.; Mortimer, C.T., Heats of formation and bond energies. Part VIII. Diethylaminotrimethylsilane, NN'-dithiodiethylamine, NN'-thionylbisdiethylamine, and NN'-sulphurylbisdiethylamine, J. Chem. Soc., 1962, 3212-3216. [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]

Bachrach, Hayes, et al., 2001
Bachrach, S.M.; Hayes, J.M.; Check, C.E.; Sunderlin, L.S., Potential energy surface of SOCl3-, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2001, 105, 41, 9595-9597, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp012412f . [all data]

Bock and Solouki, 1974
Bock, H.; Solouki, B., Photoelektronenspektren und molekuleigenschaften, XXXV. Sulfoxide X₂SO - beispiele fur den nutzen von korrelations - diagrammen bei der diskussion von substituenteneffekten und von geometrischen storungen, Chem. Ber., 1974, 107, 2299. [all data]

Chadwick, Frost, et al., 1973
Chadwick, D.; Frost, D.C.; Herring, F.G.; Katrib, A.; McDowell, C.A.; McLean, R.A.N., Photoelectron spectra of sulfuryl and thionyl halides, Can. J. Chem., 1973, 51, 1893. [all data]

Mines, Thomas, et al., 1972
Mines, G.W.; Thomas, R.K.; Thompson, H., Photoelectron spectra of compounds containing thionyl and sulphuryl groups, Proc. R. Soc. London A:, 1972, 329, 275. [all data]

Chadwick, Cornford, et al., 1972
Chadwick, D.; Cornford, A.B.; Frost, D.C.; Herring, F.G.; Katrib, A.; McDowell, C.A.; McLean, R.A.N., Photoelectron spectra of some dihalocompounds in Electron spectroscopy, ed. D.A. Shirley (North-Holland Publixhing Co, Amsterdam), 1972, 453. [all data]

Bock and Solouki, 1972
Bock, H.; Solouki, B., The sulfoxide bond, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 1972, 11, 436. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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