Carbon tetrachloride (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[1] 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[2]
(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 change
of fusion
, ΔfusHo
2.52 kJ/mol
Std entropy change
of fusion
, ΔfusSo
10.1 J/(mol·K)
Std enthalpy change
of vaporization
, ΔvapHo
32.54 kJ/mol
Std entropy change
of vaporization
, ΔvapSo
92.82 J/(mol·K) at 76 °C
Solid properties
Std enthalpy change
of 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 change
of 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 change
of 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' constants[3] a = 2066 L2 kPa/mol2
b = 0.1383 liter per mole

Vapor pressure of liquid

P in mm Hg11040100400760152038007600152003040045600
T in °C–50.0(s)–19.64.323.057.876.7102.0141.7178.0222.0276.0 

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: obtained from CHERIC[4]

Distillation data

Vapor-liquid Equilibrium
for Carbon tetrachloride/n-hexane
[5]
P = 760 mmHg
BP
Temp.
°C
 % by mole CCl4
liquidvapor
68.82.62.3
68.98.17.1
69.014.012.5
69.220.317.9
69.426.423.3
69.632.528.6
69.938.533.8
70.344.839.4
70.750.944.8
70.751.645.5
71.157.050.5
71.663.156.2
72.269.162.2
72.974.868.1
73.680.774.5
74.486.581.2
75.492.588.8
76.498.297.2
   
Vapor-liquid Equilibrium
for Carbon tetrachloride/benzene
[5]
P = 760 mmHg
BP
Temp.
°C
 % by mole CCl4
liquidvapor
79.92.12.5
79.76.17.2
79.212.414.4
78.818.821.3
78.525.128.1
78.131.334.4
77.837.640.7
77.643.946.7
77.349.552.0
77.350.152.5
77.155.958.2
77.062.264.1
76.868.670.1
76.775.176.0
76.781.582.0
76.787.888.1
76.793.994.1
76.797.897.9
   
Vapor-liquid Equilibrium
for Carbon tetrachloride/acetone
[5]
P = 760 mmHg
BP
Temp.
°C
 % by mole acetone
liquidvapor
76.740.000.00
70.805.9020.25
68.748.7027.10
64.4517.9040.75
61.9126.4048.95
59.8337.4056.55
58.7445.1061.25
57.9452.5565.50
57.1861.6570.65
56.6769.6075.60
56.3676.2079.85
56.1582.9584.60
56.0189.5089.80
56.0291.4091.50
55.9995.3095.20
56.08100.00100.00

Spectral data

UV-Vis
λmax  ? nm
Extinction coefficient, ε  ?
IR
Major absorption bands  ? cm1
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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