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fluoromethane
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Fluoromethane, also known as methyl fluoride, Freon 41, Halocarbon-41 and HFC-41, is a non-toxic, liquefiable, and flammable gas at standard temperature and pressure. It is made of carbon, hydrogen, and fluorine. The name stems from the fact that it is methane (CH4) with a fluorine atom substituted for one of the hydrogen atoms. It is used in semiconductor manufacturing processes as an etching gas in plasma etch reactors.
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Chemical data
- Formula
- CH3F
- Molecular weight
- 34.033 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- fluoromethane
- SMILES
- CF
- InChIKey
- NBVXSUQYWXRMNV-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 0.6
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 34.022
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- chemical formula
- CH₃F
- electric dipole moment
- 1.858
- global warming potential
- 141
- Commons category
- Fluoromethane
- standard molar entropy
- 222.9
- canonical SMILES
- CF
- melting point
- 131.3
- boiling point
- 194.74
- ionization energy
- 12.47
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Composition
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Fluoromethane, also known as methyl fluoride, Freon 41, Halocarbon-41 and HFC-41, is a non-toxic, liquefiable, and flammable gas at standard temperature and pressure. It is made of carbon, hydrogen, and fluorine. The name stems from the fact that it is methane (CH4) with a fluorine atom substituted for one of the hydrogen atoms. It is used in semiconductor manufacturing processes as an etching gas in plasma etch reactors.
Fluoromethane (originally called "fluorohydrate of methylene") became the first organofluorine compound to be discovered when it was synthesized by French chemists Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Eugène-Melchior Péligot in 1835 by distilling dimethyl sulfate with potassium fluoride.
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