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Thionyl chloride

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Linear Formula:
SOCl2
CAS Number:
7719-09-7
Molecular Weight:
118.97
Beilstein/REAXYS Number:
1209273
EC Number:
231-748-8
MDL number:
MFCD00011449
UNSPSC Code:
12352300
PubChem Substance ID:
24859270

vapor pressure

97 mmHg ( 20 °C)

product line

ReagentPlus®

assay

≥99%

form

liquid

refractive index

n20/D 1.518 (lit.)

bp

79 °C (lit.)

mp

−105 °C (lit.)

density

1.631 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

SMILES string

ClS(Cl)=O

InChI

1S/Cl2OS/c1-4(2)3

InChI key

FYSNRJHAOHDILO-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 3 Inhalation - Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Eye Dam. 1 - Skin Corr. 1A - STOT SE 3

target_organs

Respiratory system

supp_hazards

EUH014,EUH029

Storage Class

6.1C - Combustible acute toxic Cat.3 / toxic compounds or compounds which causing chronic effects

wgk_germany

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

Faceshields, Gloves, Goggles, type ABEK (EN14387) respirator filter

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Eagleson M.
Concise Encyclopedia Chemistry, 1056-1056 (1994)
High-resolution synchrotron far infrared spectroscopy of thionyl chloride: Analysis of the ?3 and ?6 fundamental bands.
Martin-Drumel MA, et al.
Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy (2015)
Jinjian Zheng et al.
Analytica chimica acta, 891, 255-260 (2015-09-22)
Thionyl chloride is often used to convert alcohols into more reactive alkyl chloride, which can be easily converted to many compounds that are not possible from alcohols directly. One important reaction of alkyl chloride is nucleophilic substitution, which is typically
Eagleson M.
Concise Encyclopedia Chemistry, 118-118 (1994)
Eagleson M.
Concise Encyclopedia Chemistry, 1049-1049 (1994)
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