Silicon tetrachloride

• Formula: Cl₄Si
• Molecular weight: 169.898
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/Cl4Si/c1-5(2,3)4 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: FDNAPBUWERUEDA-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 10026-04-7
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Silane, tetrachloro-; Silicon chloride (SiCl4); Tetrachlorosilane; Tetrachlorosilicon; SiCl4; Silicon chloride; Silicon(IV) chloride; Chlorid kremicity; Extrema; Silicio(tetracloruro di); Siliciumtetrachlorid; Siliciumtetrachloride; Silicium(tetrachlorure de); Tetrachlorure de silicium; UN 1818; SIC-L(TM)
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Gas phase ion energetics data

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Data evaluated as indicated in comments:
L - Sharon G. Lias

Data compiled as indicated in comments:
LLK - Sharon G. Lias, Rhoda D. Levin, and Sherif A. Kafafi
RDSH - Henry M. Rosenstock, Keith Draxl, Bruce W. Steiner, and John T. Herron

Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

Ion clustering data

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Data compiled by: John E. Bartmess

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Clustering reactions

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Cl^- + Cl₄Si = (Cl^- • Cl₄Si)

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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References

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Potzinger, Ritter, et al., 1975
Potzinger, P.; Ritter, A.; Krause, J., Massenspektrometrische Bestimmung von Bindungsenergien in siliciumorganischen Verbindungen, Z. Naturforsch. A:, 1975, 30, 347. [all data]

Bassett and Lloyd, 1971
Bassett, P.J.; Lloyd, D.R., Photoelectron spectra of halides. Part I. Tetrafluorides and tetrachlorides of group IVB, J. Chem. Soc., 1971, (A), 641. [all data]

Frost, Herring, et al., 1971
Frost, D.C.; Herring, F.G.; Katrib, A.; McLean, R.A.N.; Drake, J.E.; Westwood, N.P.C., (p→>d)π Bonding in halosilanes; evidence from photoelectron spectroscopy, Chem. Phys. Lett., 1971, 10, 347. [all data]

Ihle, Wu, et al., 1978
Ihle, H.R.; Wu, C.H.; Miletic, M.; Zmbov, K.F., Mass spectrometric studies of gas species in the systems Si-Cl and Si-Li, Adv. Mass Spectrom., 1978, 7, 670. [all data]

Steele, Nichols, et al., 1962
Steele, W.C.; Nichols, L.D.; Stone, F.G.A., The determination of silicon-carbon and silicon-hydrogen bond dissociation energies by electron impact, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1962, 84, 4441. [all data]

Hao, Kaspar, et al., 2005
Hao, C.T.; Kaspar, J.D.; Check, C.E.; Lobring, K.C.; Gilbert, T.M.; Sunderlin, L.S., Effect of substituents on the strength of A-Cl- (A = Si, Ge, and Sn) bonds in hypervalent systems: ACl(5)(-), ACl(4)F(-), and A(CH3)(3)Cl-2(-), J. Phys. Chem. A, 2005, 109, 9, 2026-2034, https://doi.org/10.1021/jp040743x . [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]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  IE (evaluated)	Recommended ionization energy
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions

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