Oxalyl chloride

• Formula: C₂Cl₂O₂
• Molecular weight: 126.926
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/C2Cl2O2/c3-1(5)2(4)6 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: CTSLXHKWHWQRSH-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 79-37-8
• Chemical structure:
  This structure is also available as a 2d Mol file
• Other names: Ethanedioyl dichloride; Ethanedioyl chloride; Oxalic acid dichloride; Oxalic dichloride; Oxaloyl chloride; Oxalyl dichloride; (COCl)2
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Gas phase thermochemistry data

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Condensed phase thermochemistry data

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Phase change data

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BS - Robert L. Brown and Stephen E. Stein
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

Reduced pressure boiling point

Gas phase ion energetics data

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Ionization energy determinations

Appearance energy determinations

Mass spectrum (electron ionization)

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References

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Walker and Prophet, 1967
Walker, L.C.; Prophet, H., Enthalpy of formation of oxalyl chloride and the COCl radical, Trans. Faraday Soc., 1967, 63, 879-882. [all data]

Pedley, Naylor, et al., 1986
Pedley, J.B.; Naylor, R.D.; Kirby, S.P., Thermochemical Data of Organic Compounds, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1986, 1-792. [all data]

Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., 1990
Aldrich Chemical Company Inc., Catalog Handbook of Fine Chemicals, Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc., Milwaukee WI, 1990, 1. [all data]

Frost, McDowell, et al., 1977
Frost, D.C.; McDowell, C.A.; Pouzard, G.; Westwood, N.P.C., The photoelectron spectra of the oxalyl halides (CO_X)₂,[X = F, Cl and Br], J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom., 1977, 10, 273. [all data]

Kimura, Katsumata, et al., 1981
Kimura, K.; Katsumata, S.; Achiba, Y.; Yamazaki, T.; Iwata, S., Ionization energies, Ab initio assignments, and valence electronic structure for 200 molecules in Handbook of HeI Photoelectron Spectra of Fundamental Organic Compounds, Japan Scientific Soc. Press, Tokyo, 1981. [all data]

Meeks and McGlynn, 1975
Meeks, J.L.; McGlynn, S.P., Photoelectron spectra of carbonyls. Oxalyl chloride, ethyl oxalyl chloride, ethyl oxamate and N,N-dimethyl ethyl oxamate, Spectrosc. Lett., 1975, 8, 439. [all data]

Chen and Holmes, 1994
Chen, H.; Holmes, J.L., The generation of OC₂O⁺ and OC₂O and a study of ionized OC₃O and C₂O by tandem mass spectrometry, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Processes, 1994, 133, 111. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  Tboil	Boiling point
  ΔcH°liquid	Enthalpy of combustion of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔfH°gas	Enthalpy of formation of gas at standard conditions
  ΔfH°liquid	Enthalpy of formation of liquid at standard conditions
  ΔvapH°	Enthalpy of vaporization at standard conditions

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