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hexachloroacetone
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Hexachloroacetone is an organic compound with the formula (Cl3C)2CO. It is also called hexachloropropanone or perchloroacetone. Numbers indicating the position of the chlorine-atoms are generally omitted as all the possible positions are substituted with chlorine. It is a colorless liquid, slightly soluble in water.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C3Cl6O
- Molecular weight
- 264.7 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexachloropropan-2-one
- SMILES
- C(=O)(C(Cl)(Cl)Cl)C(Cl)(Cl)Cl
- InChIKey
- DOJXGHGHTWFZHK-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 3.7
- Polar surface area
- 17.1 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 1
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Has part
- chlorine
- Mass
- 261.80803069999996
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- chemical formula
- C₃Cl₆O
- canonical SMILES
- C(=O)(C(Cl)(Cl)Cl)C(Cl)(Cl)Cl
- melting point
- -2.0
- Commons category
- Hexachloroacetone
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Reactions and uses
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Hexachloroacetone is an organic compound with the formula (Cl3C)2CO. It is also called hexachloropropanone or perchloroacetone. Numbers indicating the position of the chlorine-atoms are generally omitted as all the possible positions are substituted with chlorine. It is a colorless liquid, slightly soluble in water.
==Reactions and uses== Hexachloroacetone functions equivalently to trichloroacetyl chloride, i.e. as a trichloroacetylating agent.
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