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Carbon tetrachloride, also known by many other names (such as carbon tet for short and tetrachloromethane, also recognised by the IUPAC), is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CCl 4. It is a non-flammable, dense, colourless liquid with a "sweet" chloroform-like odour that can be detected at low levels.
Molecular geometry is the three-dimensional arrangement of the atoms that constitute a molecule. It includes the general shape of the molecule as well as bond lengths , bond angles , torsional angles and any other geometrical parameters that determine the position of each atom.
Structure and properties Index of refraction, n D: 1.460 Abbe number? Dielectric constant, ε r: 2.2379 ε 0 at 20 °C : Bond strength? Bond length: 175pm Bond angle: 109.5° Cl–C–Cl
In a tetrahedral molecular geometry, a central atom is located at the center with four substituents that are located at the corners of a tetrahedron. The bond angles are arccos (− 1 / 3 ) = 109.4712206...° ≈ 109.5° when all four substituents are the same, as in methane ( CH 4 ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] as well as its heavier analogues .
Chloroform undergoes further chlorination to yield carbon tetrachloride (CCl 4): CHCl 3 + Cl 2 → CCl 4 + HCl The output of this process is a mixture of the four chloromethanes: chloromethane , methylene chloride (dichloromethane), trichloromethane (chloroform), and tetrachloromethane (carbon tetrachloride).
The gauche effect is very sensitive to solvent effects, due to the large difference in polarity between the two conformers.For example, 2,3-dinitro-2,3-dimethylbutane, which in the solid state exists only in the gauche conformation, prefers the gauche conformer in benzene solution by a ratio of 79:21, but in carbon tetrachloride, it prefers the anti conformer by a ratio of 58:42. [9]
Colourless diboron tetrachloride (m.p. -93 °C) is a planar molecule in the solid, (similar to dinitrogen tetroxide, but in the gas phase the structure is staggered. [4] It decomposes (disproportionates) at room temperatures to give a series of monochlorides having the general formula (BCl) n, in which n may be 8, 9, 10, or 11.
Thiophosgene decomposes at 200 °C or above to form carbon disulfide and carbon tetrachloride. [9] It has also been observed decomposing to hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen chloride, and carbonyl sulfide gases via contact with human tissue. [10] [failed verification]