Phosgene

• Formula: CCl₂O
• Molecular weight: 98.916
• IUPAC Standard InChI: InChI=1S/CCl2O/c2-1(3)4 Copy

  
• IUPAC Standard InChIKey: YGYAWVDWMABLBF-UHFFFAOYSA-N Copy
• CAS Registry Number: 75-44-5
• Chemical structure:
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• Other names: Carbonyl dichloride; Carbonic dichloride; Carbon dichloride oxide; Carbon oxychloride; Carbonyl chloride; Chloroformyl chloride; CG; COCl2; Carbone (oxychlorure de); Carbonic chloride; Carbonio (ossicloruro di); Carbonylchlorid; Fosgeen; Fosgen; Fosgene; Koolstofoxychloride; NCI-C60219; Phosgen; Rcra waste number P095; UN 1076; Dichloroformaldehyde
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Reaction thermochemistry data

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Data compiled as indicated in comments:
B - John E. Bartmess
M - Michael M. Meot-Ner (Mautner) and Sharon G. Lias
ALS - Hussein Y. Afeefy, Joel F. Liebman, and Stephen E. Stein

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Individual Reactions

 +  = ( • )

By formula: Cl^- + CCl₂O = (Cl^- • CCl₂O)

 +  = 2

By formula: CO₂ + CCl₄ = 2CCl₂O

 +  =  + 2

By formula: CCl₂O + H₂O = CO₂ + 2HCl

2 =  + 

By formula: 2CCl₂O = CO₂ + CCl₄

Gas phase ion energetics data

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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

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

Gas Chromatography

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

Normal alkane RI, non-polar column, temperature ramp

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References

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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]

Lord and Pritchard, 1969
Lord, A.; Pritchard, H.O., Thermodynamics of the reaction between carbon dioxide and carbon tetrachloride, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1969, 1, 495-498. [all data]

Davies and Pritchard, 1972
Davies, J.V.; Pritchard, H.O., The enthalpy of formation of phosgene, J. Chem. Thermodyn., 1972, 4, 23-29. [all data]

Thomas and Thompson, 1972
Thomas, R.K.; Thompson, H., Photoelectron spectra of carbonyl halides and related compounds, Proc. R. Soc. London A:, 1972, 327, 13. [all data]

Chadwick, 1972
Chadwick, D., Photoelectron spectra of phosgene and thiophosgene, Can. J. Chem., 1972, 50, 737. [all data]

Cermak, 1968
Cermak, V., Penning ionization electron spectroscopy. I. Determination of ionization potentials of polyatomic molecules, Collection Czech. Chem. Commun., 1968, 33, 2739. [all data]

Johnson, Powis, et al., 1979
Johnson, K.M.; Powis, I.; Danby, C.J., The fragmentation of COCl₂⁺ and COF₂⁺ ions studied by the photoelectron-photoion coincidence technique, Int. J. Mass Spectrom. Ion Phys., 1979, 32, 1. [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]

Zenkevich, 2005
Zenkevich, I.G., Experimentally measured retention indices., 2005. [all data]

Zenkevich and Rodin, 2004
Zenkevich, I.G.; Rodin, A.A., Gas chromatographic identification of some volatile toxic fluorine containing compounds by precalculated retention indices, J. Ecol. Chem. (Rus.), 2004, 13, 1, 22-28. [all data]

Notes

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• Symbols used in this document:
  

  AE	Appearance energy
  ΔrG°	Free energy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrH°	Enthalpy of reaction at standard conditions
  ΔrS°	Entropy of reaction at standard conditions

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