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Chlorotrimethylsilane

C3H9ClSi, 108.644 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

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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
C₃H₉ClSi
Molecular weight
108.644 g/mol
Exact mass
108.016204 g/mol
SMILES
C[Si](C)(C)Cl
InChI
InChI=1S/C3H9ClSi/c1-5(2,3)4/h1-3H3
InChIKey
IJOOHPMOJXWVHK-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
135 °F at 760 mmHg (EPA, 1998)measured · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1998. Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHS) Chemical Profiles and Emergency First Aid Guides. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
57 °Cmeasured · Lewis, R.J. Sr.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 14th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY 2001., p. 1132
57 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
57 °C @760 [mm Hg]measured · reference compound database
Melting Point
-72 °F (EPA, 1998)measured · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1998. Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHS) Chemical Profiles and Emergency First Aid Guides. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
-40 °Cmeasured · Lewis, R.J. Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. 10th ed. Volumes 1-3 New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1999., p. V3: 3586
-58 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-40 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Flash Point
0 °F (EPA, 1998)measured · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1998. Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHS) Chemical Profiles and Emergency First Aid Guides. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
[ERG 2016] -28 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-18 °F (-28 °C) (Closed cup)measured · Fire Protection Guide to Hazardous Materials. 13 ed. Quincy, MA: National Fire Protection Association, 2002., p. 325-111
0 °F (Open cup)measured · U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation. CHRIS - Hazardous Chemical Data. Volume II. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984-5.
-27 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility
Decomposes (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Sol in benzene, ether, perchloroethylenemeasured · Lewis, R.J. Sr.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 14th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY 2001., p. 1132
Solubility in water: reactionmeasured · reference compound database
Density
0.854 at 77 °F (EPA, 1998) - Less dense than water; will floatmeasured · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1998. Extremely Hazardous Substances (EHS) Chemical Profiles and Emergency First Aid Guides. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
0.854 AT 25 °C/25 °Cmeasured · Lewis, R.J. Sr.; Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary 14th Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York, NY 2001., p. 1132
Relative density (water = 1): 0.85measured · reference compound database
0.854 @25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
608 mmHg at 68 °F ; 40 mmHg at 11.5 °F; 100 mmHg at 42.8 °F (NTP, 1992)measured · National Toxicology Program, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NTP). 1992. National Toxicology Program Chemical Repository Database. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
234.0 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
234 mm Hg at 25 °Cmeasured · Boublik, T., Fried, V., and Hala, E., The Vapour Pressures of Pure Substances. Second Revised Edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1984., p. 42
Vapor pressure, kPa at 20 °C: 26.7measured · reference compound database
Refractive Index
Index of refraction = 1.3870 at 25 °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. V5: 4927

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.

logP
2.0601calculated · 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
29.199 cm³/molcalculated · chemistry engine
Relates to the molecule's polarisability.
Fraction sp³ carbons
1calculated · chemistry engine
Share of carbon atoms with tetrahedral bonding.
QED drug-likeness
0.3293calculated · 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
5
Total atoms, hydrogen included
14
Rings
0
Aromatic rings
0
Stereocentres
0
Formal charge
0

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 Chlorotrimethylsilane yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it TRIMETHYLCHLOROSILANE, Trimethylsilyl chloride, Silane, chlorotrimethyl-, Trimethyl chlorosilane, Monochlorotrimethylsilicon, Silane, trimethylchloro-, Silicane, chlorotrimethyl-, Silylium, trimethyl-, chloride, trimethylsilane chloride, monochlorotrimethylsilane, trimethyl silyl chloride, Chlorotrimethylsilicane.

Structurally related

Nothing structurally close to Chlorotrimethylsilane has a page here yet.

Where these values came from

  • chemistry engine

    structure perception

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.