Acetic acid, chloro-

• Formula: C₂H₃ClO₂
• Molecular weight: 94.497
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2H3ClO2/c3-1-2(4)5/h1H2,(H,4,5) Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: FOCAUTSVDIKZOP-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 79-11-8
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: α-Chloroacetic acid; Chloroacetic acid; Chloroethanoic acid; Monochloroethanoic acid; CH2ClCOOH; Chloracetic acid; Monochloracetic acid; Monochloroacetic acid; Acide chloracetique; Acidomonocloroacetico; Monochloorazijnzuur; Monochloressigsaeure; MCA; Acide monochloracetique; Kyselina chloroctova; NCI-C60231; UN 1751; Acetic acid, 2-chloro-; NSC 142
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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
DH - Eugene S. Domalski and Elizabeth D. Hearing
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid

Constant pressure heat capacity of solid

Reaction thermochemistry data

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

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Individual Reactions

 +  =

By formula: C₂H₂ClO₂^- + H⁺ = C₂H₃ClO₂

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Cl^- + C₂H₃ClO₂ = (Cl^- • C₂H₃ClO₂)

 +  =  + 

By formula: H₂O + C₃H₅ClO₂ = CH₄O + C₂H₃ClO₂

 +  =  + 

By formula: H₂O + C₂H₂Cl₂O = HCl + C₂H₃ClO₂

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
HL - Edward P. Hunter and Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
LL - Sharon G. Lias and Joel F. Liebman
LBLHLM - Sharon G. Lias, John E. Bartmess, Joel F. Liebman, John L. Holmes, Rhoda D. Levin, and W. Gary Mallard

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

De-protonation reactions

 +  =

By formula: C₂H₂ClO₂^- + H⁺ = C₂H₃ClO₂

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]

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]

Urazovskii and Sidorov, 1950
Urazovskii, S.S.; Sidorov, I.A., Concerning singularities in the temperature dependence of the specific heat of liquids and the nature of phase transitions of the second kind, Doklady Akad. Nauk, 1950, SSSR 70, 859-862. [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]

Caldwell, Renneboog, et al., 1989
Caldwell, G.; Renneboog, R.; Kebarle, P., Gas Phase Acidities of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids, Based on Measurements of Proton Transfer Equilibria, Can. J. Chem., 1989, 67, 4, 661, https://doi.org/10.1139/v89-092 . [all data]

Fujio, McIver, et al., 1981
Fujio, M.; McIver, R.T., Jr.; Taft, R.W., Effects on the acidities of phenols from specific substituent-solvent interactions. Inherent substituent parameters from gas phase acidities, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1981, 103, 4017. [all data]

Cumming and Kebarle, 1978
Cumming, J.B.; Kebarle, P., Summary of gas phase measurements involving acids AH. Entropy changes in proton transfer reactions involving negative ions. Bond dissociation energies D(A-H) and electron affinities EA(A), Can. J. Chem., 1978, 56, 1. [all data]

Larson and McMahon, 1985
Larson, J.W.; McMahon, T.B., Fluoride and chloride affinities of the main group oxides, fluorides, oxofluorides, and alkyls. Quantitative scales of lewis acidities from ICR halide exchange equilibria, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1985, 107, 766. [all data]

Guthrie and Cullimore, 1980
Guthrie, J.P.; Cullimore, P.A., Effect of the acyl substituent on the equilibrium constant for hydration of esters, Can. J. Chem., 1980, 58, 1281-1294. [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]

Hunter and Lias, 1998
Hunter, E.P.; Lias, S.G., Evaluated Gas Phase Basicities and Proton Affinities of Molecules: An Update, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data, 1998, 27, 3, 413-656, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.556018 . [all data]

Watanabe, Yokoyama, et al., 1973
Watanabe, I.; Yokoyama, Y.; Ikeda, S., Lone pair ionization potentials of carboxylic acids determined by He(I) photoelectron spectroscopy, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 1973, 46, 1959. [all data]

Holmes, Lossing, et al., 1991
Holmes, J.L.; Lossing, F.P.; Mayer, P.M., Heats of formation of oxygen-containing organic free radicals from appearance energy measurements, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1991, 113, 9723. [all data]

Holmes, Lossing, et al., 1983
Holmes, J.L.; Lossing, F.P.; Terlouw, J.K.; Burgers, P.C., Novel gas-phase ions. The radical cations [CH₂XH]⁺. (X = F, Cl, Br, I, OH, NH², SH) and [CH₂CH₂NH₃]⁺., Can. J. Chem., 1983, 61, 2305. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Cp,liquid	Constant pressure heat capacity of liquid
  Cp,solid	Constant pressure heat capacity of solid
  ΔcH°solid	Enthalpy of combustion of solid at standard conditions
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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