Tin(II) chloride

• Formula: Cl₂Sn
• Molecular weight: 189.616
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/2ClH.Sn/h2*1H;/q;;+2/p-2 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: AXZWODMDQAVCJE-UHFFFAOYSA-L Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 7772-99-8
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: SnCl2; Stannous chloride; Tin chloride; Tin chloride (SnCl2); Tin(ii) chloride (1:2); C.I. 77864; NA 1759; NCI-C02722; Stannochlor; Tin dichloride; Tin protochloride; Anhydrous stannous chloride; Fascat 2004; Single muriate of tin; Tin (II) chloride anhydrous; Tin crystals; Tin salt; Tin salts
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Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron
B - John E. Bartmess

View reactions leading to Cl₂Sn⁺ (ion structure unspecified)

Electron affinity determinations

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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

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Vibrational and/or electronic energy levels

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Data compiled by: Takehiko Shimanouchi

Symmetry:   C_2ν     Symmetry Number σ = 2

Source: Shimanouchi, 1972

Notes

References

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Pabst, Perry, et al., 1977
Pabst, R.E.; Perry, D.L.; Margrave, J.L.; Franklin, J.L., Electron impact studies of tin tetrahalides SnCl₄, SnBr₄ and SnI₄, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Phys., 1977, 24, 323. [all data]

Check, Faust, et al., 2001
Check, C.E.; Faust, T.O.; Bailey, J.M.; Wright, B.J.; Gilbert, T.M.; Sunderlin, L.S., Addition of Polarization and Diffuse Functions to the LANL2DZ Basis Set for P-Block Elements, J. Phys. Chem. A,, 2001, 105, 34, 8111, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp011945l . [all data]

Novak and Potts, 1984
Novak, I.; Potts, A.W., Ultraviolet photoelectron spectra of gas phase and condensed tin and lead dihalides (MX₂, M = Sn, Pb X = Cl, Br, I), J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1984, 33, 1. [all data]

Buchanan, Knowles, et al., 1969
Buchanan, A.S.; Knowles, D.J.; Swingler, D.L., Electron impact studies of stannous chloride and stannic chloride, J. Phys. Chem., 1969, 73, 4394. [all data]

Harris, Lappert, et al., 1976
Harris, D.H.; Lappert, M.F.; Pedley, J.B.; Sharp, G.J., Bonding studies of compounds of group 3-5 elements. Part XVIII. He(I) photoelectron spectra of bivalent homoleptic alkyls and amides, especially of group 4 elements, and of tin(II) chloride and bromide, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans., 1976, 945. [all data]

Evans and Orchard, 1975
Evans, S.; Orchard, A.F., The vapour phase ultra-violet photoelectron spectroscopy of metal halides at elevated temperatures, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1975, 6, 207. [all data]

O'Brien and Mucklejohn, 1987
O'Brien, N.W.; Mucklejohn, S.A., A study of the vapour-phase equilibria over tin(II) chloride, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1987, 19, 1065. [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:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  EA	Electron affinity

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