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Chemical data page

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 °C
26.8 dyn/cm at 20 °C
22.2 dyn/cm at 75 °C
Viscosity 0.9578 mPa·s at 21 °C
0.901 mPa·s at 25 °C
0.7928 mPa·s at 35 °C
0.4056 mPa·s at 99 °C
Thermal conductivity
(units of W m K) 		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
Std enthalpy change
of fusion, ΔfusH 		2.52 kJ/mol
Std entropy change
of fusion, ΔfusS 		10.1 J/(mol·K)
Std enthalpy change
of vaporization, ΔvapH 		32.54 kJ/mol
Std entropy change
of vaporization, ΔvapS 		92.82 J/(mol·K) at 76 °C
Solid properties
Std enthalpy change
of formation, ΔfHsolid 		? kJ/mol
Standard molar entropy,
Ssolid 		? J/(mol K)
Heat capacity, cp 44.22 J/(mol K) at -227 °C (46 K)
Liquid properties
Std enthalpy change
of formation, ΔfHliquid 		–128.4 kJ/mol
Standard molar entropy,
Sliquid 		214.39 J/(mol K)
Enthalpy of combustion, ΔcH –359.9 kJ/mol
Heat capacity, cp 131.3 J/(mol K)
Gas properties
Std enthalpy change
of formation, ΔfHgas 		–95.98 kJ/mol
Standard molar entropy,
Sgas 		309.65 J/(mol K)
Heat capacity, cp 82.65 J/(mol K)
van der Waals' constants a = 2066 L kPa/mol
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.

log10 of Carbon tetrachloride vapor pressure. Uses formula: log e ⁡ P m m H g = {\displaystyle \scriptstyle \log _{e}P_{mmHg}=} log e ⁡ ( 760 101.325 ) − 9.113968 log e ⁡ ( T + 273.15 ) − 6263.383 T + 273.15 + 74.99482 + 7.411446 × 10 − 06 ( T + 273.15 ) 2 {\displaystyle \scriptstyle \log _{e}({\frac {760}{101.325}})-9.113968\log _{e}(T+273.15)-{\frac {6263.383}{T+273.15}}+74.99482+7.411446\times 10^{-06}(T+273.15)^{2}} obtained from CHERIC

Distillation data

Vapor-liquid Equilibrium
for Carbon tetrachloride/n-hexane
P = 760 mmHg
BP
Temp.
°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 Equilibrium
for Carbon tetrachloride/benzene
P = 760 mmHg
BP
Temp.
°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 Equilibrium
for Carbon tetrachloride/acetone
P = 760 mmHg
BP
Temp.
°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
NMR
Proton NMR  
Carbon-13 NMR  
Other NMR data  
MS
Masses of
main fragments 		 

References

  1. Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, 10th ed. pp. 1669–1674
  2. Touloukian, 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.
  3. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 47th ed, p D-104
  4. "Pure Component Properties" (Queriable database). Chemical Engineering Research Information Center. Retrieved 17 May 2007.
  5. ^ "Binary Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Data" (Queriable database). Chemical Engineering Research Information Center. Retrieved 17 May 2007.
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