Carbon tetrachloride

Carbon compounds: carbon tetrachloride

The carbon in carbon tetrachloride formally is in the oxidation state 4.

Carbon tetrachloride

• Formula as often written: CCl₄
• Hill system formula: C₁Cl₄
• CAS registry number: [56-23-5]
• Formula weight: 153.822
• Class: chloride

Synonyms

• carbon tetrachloride
• carbon(IV) chloride
• carbon chloride
• tetrachloromethane

Physical properties

• Colour: colourless
• Appearance: liquid, distinctive smell, danger!: toxic
• Melting point: -22.9
• Boiling point: 76.7
• Density: l.594

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Element analysis

Element percentages for the elements in carbon tetrachloride

Element	%
C	7.81
Cl	92.19

Synthesis

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Solid state structure

• Geometry of carbon: 4 coordinate: tetrahedral
• Prototypical structure:

Isotope pattern

What follows is the calculated isotope pattern for the CCl₄ unit with the most intense ion set to 100%.

Formula: C₁Cl₄

mass  %
152  78.2 _______________________________________
153   0.9 
154 100.0 __________________________________________________
155   1.1 _
156  48.0 ________________________
157   0.5 
158  10.2 _____
159   0.1 
160   0.8 
161   0.0 

References

The data on these compounds pages are assembled and adapted from the primary literature and several other sources including the following.

• R.T. Sanderson in Chemical Periodicity, Reinhold, New York, USA, 1960.
• N.N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw in Chemistry of the Elements, 2nd edition, Butterworth, UK, 1997.
• F.A. Cotton, G. Wilkinson, C.A. Murillo, and M. Bochmann, in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• A.F. Trotman-Dickenson, (ed.) in Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry, Pergamon, Oxford, UK, 1973.
• R.W.G. Wyckoff, in Crystal Structures, volume 1, Interscience, John Wiley & Sons, 1963.
• A.R.West in Basic solid state chemistry Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• A.F. Wells in Structural inorganic chemistry, 4th edition, Oxford, UK, 1975.
• J.D.H. Donnay, (ed.) in Crystal data determinative tables, ACA monograph number 5, American Crystallographic Association, USA, 1963.
• D.R. Lide, (ed.) in Chemical Rubber Company handbook of chemistry and physics, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 77th edition, 1996.
• J.W. Mellor in A comprehensive treatise on inorganic and theoretical chemistry, volumes 1-16, Longmans, London, UK, 1922-1937.
• J.E. Macintyre (ed.) in Dictionary of inorganic compounds, volumes 1-3, Chapman & Hall, London, UK, 1992.

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