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Chloromethane, also called methyl chloride, Refrigerant-40, R-40 or HCC 40, is an organic compound with the chemical formula CH 3 Cl. One of the haloalkanes , it is a colorless, sweet-smelling, flammable gas.
This page contains tables of azeotrope data for various binary and ternary mixtures of solvents. The data include the composition of a mixture by weight (in binary azeotropes, when only one fraction is given, it is the fraction of the second component), the boiling point (b.p.) of a component, the boiling point of a mixture, and the specific gravity of the mixture.
Methyl chloroformate hydrolyzes in water to form methanol, hydrochloric acid, and carbon dioxide. [3] This decomposition happens violently in the presence of steam, causing foaming. The compound decomposes in heat, which can liberate hydrogen chloride, phosgene, chlorine, or other toxic gases.
Sodium methoxide is prepared by treating methanol with sodium: 2 Na + 2 CH 3 OH → 2 CH 3 ONa + H 2. The reaction is so exothermic that ignition is possible. The resulting solution, which is colorless, is often used as a source of sodium methoxide, but the pure material can be isolated by evaporation followed by heating to remove residual methanol.
Dichloromethane (DCM, methylene chloride, or methylene bichloride) is an organochlorine compound with the formula C H 2 Cl 2. This colorless, volatile liquid with a chloroform-like, sweet odor is widely used as a solvent. Although it is not miscible with water, it is slightly polar, and miscible with many organic solvents. [12]
Chloromethyl methyl ether (CMME) is a compound with formula CH 3 OCH 2 Cl. A colorless liquid, it is a chloroalkyl ether.It is used as an alkylating agent.In organic synthesis, it is used for introducing the methoxymethyl ether (MOM) protecting group, [3] and is thus often called MOM-Cl or MOM chloride.
On a large scale, potassium methoxide is produced by decomposing potassium amalgam with methanol, which is produced by the chloralkali-electrolysis of potassium chloride by the amalgam process. Impurities of the resulting potassium methoxide in methanol with metallic mercury can be eliminated by ultrafiltration . [ 4 ]
Similar reactions are the basis of industrial routes from methanol and ethanol respectively to methyl chloride and ethyl chloride. [40] In alkali solution, zinc chloride converts to various zinc hydroxychlorides. These include [Zn(OH) 3 Cl] 2−, [Zn(OH) 2 Cl 2] 2−, [Zn(OH)Cl 3] 2−, and the insoluble Zn 5 (OH) 8 Cl 2 ·H 2 O.