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Trichloroethylene

C2HCl3, 131.389 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.

Organic — organohalide9 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
C₂HCl₃
Molecular weight
131.389 g/mol
Exact mass
129.914383 g/mol
SMILES
ClC=C(Cl)Cl
InChI
InChI=1S/C2HCl3/c3-1-2(4)5/h1H
InChIKey
XSTXAVWGXDQKEL-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
189 °F at 760 mmHg (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.
87.2 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-520
Dielectric constant at 16 °C: 3.42; coefficient of cubic expansion: 0.00119 (at 0-40 °C); heat of formation: -42.3 kJ/mol (liquid), -7.78 kJ/mol (vapor); latent heat of vaporization: 238 kJ/kg (at boiling point)measured · Snedecor G et al; Chloroethylenes and Chloroethanes. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. (1999-2016). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Online Posting Date: Jan 16, 2004.
87 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
189 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
87.21 °C @760 [mm Hg]measured · reference compound database
189 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
Melting Point
-99 °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.
-84.7 °Cmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-520
-84.8 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-86 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-99 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
-84.7 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
-99 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
Flash Point
greater than 200 °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.
>200 °Fmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility
less than 1 mg/mL at 70 °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.
In water, range of 999-1,472 mg/L at 25 °C (average of 1,118 mg/L) /7 measured values/measured · Yalkowsky, S.H., He, Yan, Jain, P. Handbook of Aqueous Solubility Data Second Edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 2010, p. 19
In water, 1,280 mg/L at 25 °Cmeasured · Horvath AL et al; J Phys Chem Ref Data 28: 449 (1999)
Miscible with ethanol, ethyl ether; soluble in acetone, carbon tetrachloride, chloroformmeasured · 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: 2733
Dissolves most fixed and volatile oilsmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 1786
1.28 mg/mL at 25 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
Solubility in water, g/100ml at 20 °C: 0.1measured · reference compound database
0.1%measured · reference compound database
Density
1.46 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.
1.4642 at 20 °C/4 °Cmeasured · O'Neil, M.J. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013., p. 1786
Liquid heat capacity: 0.231 Btu/lb-F; saturated vapor pressure: 1.166 lb/sq in; saturated vapor density: 0.02695 lb/cu ft (all at 70 °F)measured · U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation. CHRIS - Hazardous Chemical Data. Volume II. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984-5.
Saturated liquid density: 90.770 lb/cu ft; ideal gas heat capacity: 0.146 Btu/lb-F (All at 75 °F)measured · U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation. CHRIS - Hazardous Chemical Data. Volume II. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984-5.
Relative density (water = 1): 1.5 (20 °C)measured · reference compound database
1.46measured · reference compound database
1.464 @ 20°Cmeasured · reference compound database
1.46measured · reference compound database
Vapor Pressure
60 mmHg at 68 °F ; 77 mmHg at 77 °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.
69.0 [mmHg]measured · reference compound database
69 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. 87
Vapor pressure, kPa at 20 °C: 7.8measured · reference compound database
58 mmHgmeasured · reference compound database
75 [mm Hg] @26.7 °Cmeasured · reference compound database
58 mmHgmeasured · reference compound database
LogP
log Kow = 2.61measured · Hansch, C., Leo, A., D. Hoekman. Exploring QSAR - Hydrophobic, Electronic, and Steric Constants. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society., 1995., p. 4
2.42measured · reference compound database
2.42measured · reference compound database
2.67measured · reference compound database
Viscosity
0.545 mPa s at 25 °Cmeasured · Burdock, G.A. (ed.). Fenaroli's Handbook of Flavor Ingredients. 5th ed.Boca Raton, FL 2005, p. 6-231
Refractive Index
Index of refraction: 1.4773 at 20 °C/Dmeasured · Haynes, W.M. (ed.). CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 95th Edition. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton: FL 2014-2015, p. 3-520

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
2.5017calculated · 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
25.642 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
0.4738calculated · 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
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 Trichloroethylene yet.

Other names for it

No systematic name is recorded.

The sources also call it Trichloroethene, 1,1,2-Trichloroethene, Ethinyl trichloride, 1,1,2-Trichloroethylene, Ethene, trichloro-, Ethylene trichloride, Germalgene, Westrosol, Densinfluat, Narkosoid, Trethylene, Acetylene trichloride.

Structurally related

Molecules sharing this formula, or whose fingerprint is at least 40% similar to this one. Similarity is Tanimoto on Morgan fingerprints over this library only — it is a measure of structural overlap, not of how alike they behave.

Seen alongside it in reaction records

Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as Trichloroethylene. This says nothing about structure: most of them are the bases, solvents, ligands and catalysts the chemistry needed, and they are here because somebody put them in the same flask.

Where these values came from

  • chemistry engine

    structure perception

No matching record was found in the currently indexed sources (reference compound database)..

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.