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
• Chemical structure:
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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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Phase change data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
AC - William E. Acree, Jr., James S. Chickos

Enthalpy of vaporization

Antoine Equation Parameters

log₁₀(P) = A − (B / (T + C))
    P = vapor pressure (bar)
    T = temperature (K)

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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

Ion clustering data

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Data compiled by: John E. Bartmess

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Clustering reactions

 +  = Cl₃OS^-

By formula: Cl^- + Cl₂OS = Cl₃OS^-

Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels

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Data compiled by: Takehiko Shimanouchi

Symmetry:   C_s     Symmetry Number σ = 1

Source: Shimanouchi, 1972

Notes

References

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Dykyj, Svoboda, et al., 1999
Dykyj, J.; Svoboda, J.; Wilhoit, R.C.; Frenkel, M.L.; Hall, K.R., Vapor Pressure of Chemicals: Part A. Vapor Pressure and Antoine Constants for Hydrocarbons and Sulfur, Selenium, Tellurium and Hydrogen Containing Organic Compounds, Springer, Berlin, 1999, 373. [all data]

Stull, 1947
Stull, Daniel R., Vapor Pressure of Pure Substances. Organic and Inorganic Compounds, Ind. Eng. Chem., 1947, 39, 4, 517-540, https://doi.org/10.1021/ie50448a022 . [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]

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]

Shimanouchi, 1972
Shimanouchi, T., Tables of Molecular Vibrational Frequencies Consolidated Volume II, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1972, 6, 3, 993-1102. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔvapH	Enthalpy of vaporization

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