Chloroacetic acid
CAS Registry Number®
79-11-8
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CAS Name
Chloroacetic acidMolecular Formula
C2H3ClO2Molecular Mass
94.50Cite this Page
Chloroacetic acid. CAS Common Chemistry. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, n.d. http://commonchemistry.cas.org/detail?ref=79-11-8 (retrieved ) (CAS RN: 79-11-8). Licensed under the Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).Compound Properties
Boiling Point (1)
189 °CMelting Point (2)
63 °CDensity (3)
1.4043 g/cm³ @ Temp: 40 °C
Source(s)
- (1) International Chemical Safety Cards data were obtained from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (US)
- (2) PhysProp data were obtained from Syracuse Research Corporation of Syracuse, New York (US)
- (3) Hazardous Substances Data Bank data were obtained from the National Library of Medicine (US)
Other Names and Identifiers
InChI
InChI=1S/C2H3ClO2/c3-1-2(4)5/h1H2,(H,4,5)
InChIKey
InChIKey=FOCAUTSVDIKZOP-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
C(CCl)(O)=O
Canonical SMILES
O=C(O)CCl
Other Names for this Substance
- Acetic acid, 2-chloro-
- Acetic acid, chloro-
- 2-Chloroacetic acid
- Chloracetic acid
- Chloroacetic acid
