This page provides supplementary chemical data on carbon tetrachloride.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI, and follow its directions. MSDS for carbon tetrachloride is available at Fisher Scientific.
Structure and properties
Structure and properties Index of refraction, nD 1.460 Abbe number? Dielectric constant, εr 2.2379 ε0 at 20 °C Bond strength ? Bond length 175pm Bond angle 109.5° Cl–C–Cl Magnetic susceptibility ? Surface tension 28.0 dyn/cm at 10 °C26.8 dyn/cm at 20 °C22.2 dyn/cm at 75 °C ViscosityLange's Handbook of Chemistry, 10th ed. pp. 1669–1674 0.9578 mPa·s at 21 °C0.901 mPa·s at 25 °C0.7928 mPa·s at 35 °C0.4056 mPa·s at 99 °C Thermal conductivityTouloukian, Y.S., Liley, P.E., and Saxena, S.C. Thermophysical properties of matter – the TPRC data series. Volume 3. Thermal conductivity – nonmetallic liquids and gases. Data book. 1970. (units of W m−1 K−1) 0.1093 at 270 K 0.1074 at 280 K 0.1055 at 290 K 0.1036 at 300 K 0.1017 at 310 K 0.0997 at 320 K
Thermodynamic properties
Phase behavior Triple point 249 K (–24 °C), ? Pa Critical point 556.4 K (283.3 °C), 4493 kPa, 3.625 mol.dm−3 Std enthalpy changeof fusion, ΔfusHo 2.52 kJ/mol Std entropy changeof fusion, ΔfusSo 10.1 J/(mol·K) Std enthalpy changeof vaporization, ΔvapHo 32.54 kJ/mol Std entropy changeof vaporization, ΔvapSo 92.82 J/(mol·K) at 76 °C Solid properties Std enthalpy changeof formation, ΔfHosolid ? kJ/mol Standard molar entropy,Sosolid ? J/(mol K) Heat capacity, cp 44.22 J/(mol K) at -227 °C (46 K) Liquid properties Std enthalpy changeof formation, ΔfHoliquid –128.4 kJ/mol Standard molar entropy,Soliquid 214.39 J/(mol K) Enthalpy of combustion, ΔcHo –359.9 kJ/mol Heat capacity, cp 131.3 J/(mol K) Gas properties Std enthalpy changeof formation, ΔfHogas –95.98 kJ/mol Standard molar entropy,Sogas 309.65 J/(mol K) Heat capacity, cp 82.65 J/(mol K) van der Waals' constantsCRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 47th ed, p D-104 a = 2066 L2 kPa/mol2 b = 0.1383 liter per mole
Vapor pressure of liquid P in mm Hg 1 10 40 100 400 760 1520 3800 7600 15200 30400 45600 T in °C –50.0(s) –19.6 4.3 23.0 57.8 76.7 102.0 141.7 178.0 222.0 276.0 — Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 47th ed. Note that "(s)" annotation indicates equilibrium temperature of vapor over solid. Otherwise the temperature is equilibrium of vapor over liquid.
Distillation data Vapor-liquid Equilibriumfor Carbon tetrachloride/n-hexaneP = 760 mmHg BPTemp.°C % by mole CCl4 liquid vapor 68.8 2.6 2.3 68.9 8.1 7.1 69.0 14.0 12.5 69.2 20.3 17.9 69.4 26.4 23.3 69.6 32.5 28.6 69.9 38.5 33.8 70.3 44.8 39.4 70.7 50.9 44.8 70.7 51.6 45.5 71.1 57.0 50.5 71.6 63.1 56.2 72.2 69.1 62.2 72.9 74.8 68.1 73.6 80.7 74.5 74.4 86.5 81.2 75.4 92.5 88.8 76.4 98.2 97.2 Vapor-liquid Equilibriumfor Carbon tetrachloride/benzeneP = 760 mmHg BPTemp.°C % by mole CCl4 liquid vapor 79.9 2.1 2.5 79.7 6.1 7.2 79.2 12.4 14.4 78.8 18.8 21.3 78.5 25.1 28.1 78.1 31.3 34.4 77.8 37.6 40.7 77.6 43.9 46.7 77.3 49.5 52.0 77.3 50.1 52.5 77.1 55.9 58.2 77.0 62.2 64.1 76.8 68.6 70.1 76.7 75.1 76.0 76.7 81.5 82.0 76.7 87.8 88.1 76.7 93.9 94.1 76.7 97.8 97.9 Vapor-liquid Equilibriumfor Carbon tetrachloride/acetoneP = 760 mmHg BPTemp.°C % by mole acetone liquid vapor 76.74 0.00 0.00 70.80 5.90 20.25 68.74 8.70 27.10 64.45 17.90 40.75 61.91 26.40 48.95 59.83 37.40 56.55 58.74 45.10 61.25 57.94 52.55 65.50 57.18 61.65 70.65 56.67 69.60 75.60 56.36 76.20 79.85 56.15 82.95 84.60 56.01 89.50 89.80 56.02 91.40 91.50 55.99 95.30 95.20 56.08 100.00 100.00
Spectral data
UV-Vis λmax ? nm Extinction coefficient, ε ? IR Major absorption bands ? cm−1 NMR Proton NMR Carbon-13 NMR Other NMR data MS Masses of main fragments
References