Chlorine trifluoride

Base Information

• Chemical Name: Chlorine trifluoride
• CAS No.: 7790-91-2
• Deprecated CAS: 12422-22-9,12526-02-2
• Molecular Formula: ClF3
• Molecular Weight: 92.4482
• Hs Code.: 2812901910
• European Community (EC) Number: 232-230-4
• ICSC Number: 0656
• UN Number: 1749
• UNII: 921841L3N0
• DSSTox Substance ID: DTXSID90893948
• Nikkaji Number: J74.676B
• Wikipedia: Chlorine trifluoride
• Wikidata: Q411305
• Mol file: 7790-91-2.mol

Synonyms:chlorine trifluoride

Chemical Property of Chlorine trifluoride

Chemical Property:

• Appearance/Colour: NEARLY COLOURLESS COMPRESSED LIQUEFIED GAS , WITH CHARACTERISTIC ODOUR.
• Vapor Pressure: 1310mmHg at 25°C
• Melting Point: -76ºC
• Boiling Point: 12ºC
• PSA: 0.00000
• Density: 3.18 （Relative vapour density (air = 1)）
• LogP: 1.95010
• Water Solubility.: violently hydrolyzed by H2O [MER06]
• XLogP3: 2.5
• Hydrogen Bond Donor Count: 0
• Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count: 3
• Rotatable Bond Count: 0
• Exact Mass: 91.9640622
• Heavy Atom Count: 4
• Complexity: 8
• Transport DOT Label: Poison Gas Oxidizer Corrosive

Purity/Quality:

97% ^*data from raw suppliers

Safty Information:

• Pictogram(s): Explodes in contact with organic materials or with water. Dangerous fire risk. A poison, very toxic, corrosive to skin. TLV: ceiling 0.1 ppm.
• Hazard Codes: O
• Statements: 8-35
• Safety Statements: 17-38

MSDS Files:

SDS file from LookChem

Total 1 MSDS from other Authors

Useful:

• Chemical Classes: Toxic Gases & Vapors -> Oxidizers
• Canonical SMILES: FCl(F)F
• Inhalation Risk: A harmful concentration of this gas in the air will be reached very quickly on loss of containment.
• Effects of Short Term Exposure: The substance is corrosive to the eyes, skin and respiratory tract. Inhalation may cause lung oedema. The effects may be delayed. Medical observation is indicated.
• Physical properties: Colorless gas; sweetish but suffocating odor; density of the liquid 1.77 g/mL at 13°C; condenses to a greenish yellow liquid at 11.75°C; freezes to a white solid at -76.3°C; reacts violently with water.
• Uses: Fluorinating agent; incendiary; igniter and propellant for rockets; in nuclear reactor fuel processing; pyrolysis inhibitor for fluorocarbon polymers Chlorine trifluoride is used as a fluorinatingagent, as a rocket propellant, in processingof nuclear reactor fuel, and in incendiaries.It is also used as an inhibitor of pyrolysis offluorocarbon polymers. Fluorinating agent; in nuclear reactor fuel processing; incendiary; igniter and propellant for rockets; pyrolysis inhibitor for fluorocarbon polymers.

Technology Process of Chlorine trifluoride

There total 27 articles about Chlorine trifluoride which guide to synthetic route it. The literature collected by LookChem mainly comes from the sharing of users and the free literature resources found by Internet computing technology. We keep the original model of the professional version of literature to make it easier and faster for users to retrieve and use. At the same time, we analyze and calculate the most feasible synthesis route with the highest yield for your reference as below:

synthetic route:

Reference yield: 95.0%

chlorine trifluoride + fluorine (7782-41-4) → 18F-fluoride (27948-18-1) + chlorine trifluoride (7790-91-2)

Guidance literature:

In gas; at 119 - 232°C in Al-tubes about 30 - 45 min;;

Reference yield:

dioxygen difluoride (7783-44-0) + chlorine monofluoride (7790-89-8) → chlorine trifluoride (7790-91-2) + oxygen (80937-33-3) + fluorine (7782-41-4)

Guidance literature:

In neat (no solvent); above 140°K;;

DOI:10.1021/ja00893a004

Reference yield:

chlorine pentafluoride (184851-42-1,478167-78-1,13637-63-3,676353-68-7,478167-76-9) → chlorine trifluoride (7790-91-2) + fluorine (7782-41-4)

Guidance literature:

In neat (no solvent); equilibrium;;

upstream raw materials:

chlorine monofluoride

fluorine

rubidium tetrafluorochlorate(III)

potassium tetrafluoridochlorate(III)

Downstream raw materials:

gadolinium(III) fluoride

boron trifluoride

neodymium(III) fluoride

lanthanum(III) fluoride

Refernces

• 1、 Banks, A. A.,Emeleus, H. J.,Woolf, A. A.. "". . . Retrieved 1949.
• 2、 Bougon, Roland,Wilson, William W.,Christe, Karl O.. "Synthesis and characterization of NF4CrF6 and reaction chemistry of CrF5". . p. 2286 - 2292. Retrieved 2008/10/08.