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Chlorotrifluoroethylene

C2ClF3, 116.469 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

verified recordOrganic — organohalide7 measured properties

Drawn from the SMILES. It shows how the atoms are connected — not a photograph of a molecule, and not its shape in space.

Identifiers

Molecular formula
C₂ClF₃
Molecular weight
116.469 g/mol
Exact mass
115.964062 g/mol
IUPAC name
1-chloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethene
SMILES
FC(F)=C(F)Cl
InChI
InChI=1S/C2ClF3/c3-1(4)2(5)6
InChIKey
UUAGAQFQZIEFAH-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Both are open without an account.

Measured properties

Values somebody obtained from a sample and published. Where two sources report the same property they are both shown, in the units each used — a disagreement between them is information, and averaging it away would be inventing a number neither one gave.

Boiling Point
-18 °F at 760 mmHg (USCG, 1999)measured · U.S. Coast Guard. 1999. Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) - Hazardous Chemical Data. Commandant Instruction 16465.12C. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
-18 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
-27.8 °Cmeasured · Lide, D.R. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 88TH Edition 2007-2008. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL 2007, p. 3-114
-28 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-27.8 °C @760 [mm Hg]measured · reference compound database
Melting Point
-158.2 °Cmeasured · Lide, D.R. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 88TH Edition 2007-2008. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL 2007, p. 3-114
-158 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-158.2 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Flash Point
-27.8 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility
Soluble in benzene, chloroformmeasured · Lide, D.R. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 88TH Edition 2007-2008. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL 2007, p. 3-114
Density
1.307 at 68 °F (USCG, 1999) - Denser than water; will sinkmeasured · U.S. Coast Guard. 1999. Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) - Hazardous Chemical Data. Commandant Instruction 16465.12C. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
1.54 g/cu cm at -60 °Cmeasured · Lide, D.R. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 88TH Edition 2007-2008. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL 2007, p. 3-114
Density: 1.305 (liquid) at 20 °Cmeasured · Lewis, R.J. Sr.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 15th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY 2007., p. 292
Relative density (water = 1): 1.3measured · reference compound database
1.54 @ 60°Cmeasured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
4590.0 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
4.592X10+3 mm Hg at 25 °C /extrapolated/measured · Daubert, T.E., R.P. Danner. Physical and Thermodynamic Properties of Pure Chemicals Data Compilation. Washington, D.C.: Taylor and Francis, 1989.
Vapor pressure, kPa at 25 °C: 612measured · reference compound database
750 [mm Hg] @-28.4 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Refractive Index
Index of refraction = 1.38 at 0 °C/Dmeasured · Lide, D.R., G.W.A. Milne (eds.). Handbook of Data on Organic Compounds. Volume I. 3rd ed. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton ,FL. 1994., p. V3: 2763

Calculated properties

Derived from the structure rather than from a sample. These are reproducible and they are not measurements: a calculated partition coefficient and a measured one can differ by a long way, and where both exist they are listed apart on purpose.

Molecular weight
116.47 g/molcalculated · reference compound database
Average mass of one molecule, from reference compound database.
Exact mass
115.9640622 Dacalculated · reference compound database
Mass of the most common isotopic form.
XLogP3
1.9calculated · reference compound database
Estimated oil/water partition, computed by reference compound database.
Polar surface area
0 Ųcalculated · reference compound database
Polar surface area as computed by reference compound database.
Complexity
72calculated · reference compound database
A rough measure of how intricate the structure is.
H-bond donors
0calculated · reference compound database
H-bond acceptors
3calculated · reference compound database
logP
2.2603calculated · chemistry engine
Estimated preference for oil over water. Higher means more oil-like.
Topological polar surface area
0 Ųcalculated · chemistry engine
Surface area from polar atoms; relates to how easily a molecule crosses membranes.
H-bond donors
0calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can donate a hydrogen bond.
H-bond acceptors
0calculated · chemistry engine
Atoms that can accept a hydrogen bond.
Rotatable bonds
0calculated · chemistry engine
Single bonds the molecule can freely twist around.
Molar refractivity
16.203 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
0calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.4554calculated · chemistry engine
Quantitative estimate of drug-likeness (0–1).

What it is made of

Elements

Percentages are of the molecular weight above, worked out the same way the molar mass calculator does it.

Structure

Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
6
Total atoms, hydrogen included
6
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

Functional groups

  • Halide (C–X)

    A halogen atom attached to carbon.

  • Alkene

    A carbon–carbon double bond.

Matched by structural pattern, not by a measurement.

The molecule in three dimensions

Rotate and inspect the atoms. Loaded only when you ask, so the page stays light.

The drawing above is a diagram of what is bonded to what. A molecule is not flat, and the model here is one low-energy shape generated from the connectivity — useful for seeing which groups can reach each other, and not a measured structure. A real sample is a population of conformations, interconverting.

Reactions it appears in

No documented reaction with a written procedure and a source involves Chlorotrifluoroethylene yet.

Other names for it

The systematic name on this record is 1-chloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethene.

The sources also call it Chlorotrifluoroethene, Trithene, Daiflon, Trifluorochloroethylene, Fluoroplast 3, CTFE, Trifluorovinyl chloride, Ethene, chlorotrifluoro-, Genetron 1113, Monochlorotrifluoroethylene, Ethylene, chlorotrifluoro-, Trifluorchlorethylen.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Chlorotrifluoroethylene has a page here yet.

Where these values came from

compound record.

What this page does not claim

The identifiers are what the source record holds, copied rather than recomputed. Measured values are reported as their source gave them, units and all; calculated values are marked as calculated and are not measurements. Where a field is absent the page says so, because a blank cell reads as a zero and a guessed value reads as a fact.

Nothing here is a hazard assessment, a purity statement or advice about handling a sample. A flash point quoted from a safety database is a number somebody published, not a judgement by us about whether this molecule is safe for what you intend.