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Dichlorine monoxide

Not to be confused with chlorine monoxide.

Dichlorine monoxide is an inorganic compound with the molecular formula Cl2O. It was first synthesised in 1834 by Antoine Jérôme Balard,[2] who along with Gay-Lussac also determined its composition. In older literature it is often referred to as chlorine monoxide,[3] which can be a source of confusion as that name now refers to the ClO• radical.

Dichlorine monoxide
Structure of dichlorine monoxide; Cl-O bond length is 170.0 pm, bond angle is 110.9°.
Space-filling model of dichlorine monoxide
Names
Other names
Oxygen dichloride
Oxygen chloride
Dichlorine oxide
Chlorine(I) oxide
Hypochlorous oxide
Hypochlorous anhydride
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChEBI
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UNII
  • InChI=1S/Cl2O/c1-3-2 checkY
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  • InChI=1/Cl2O/c1-3-2
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  • ClOCl
Properties
Cl2O
Molar mass 86.9054 g/mol
Appearance brownish-yellow gas
Melting point −120.6 °C (−185.1 °F; 152.6 K)
Boiling point 2.0 °C (35.6 °F; 275.1 K)
very soluble, hydrolyses 143 g Cl2O per 100 g water
Solubility in other solvents soluble in CCl4
Structure
0.78 ± 0.08 D
Thermochemistry
265.9 J K−1 mol−1
80.3 kJ mol−1
Hazards
GHS labelling:
GHS05: Corrosive GHS09: Environmental hazard
Danger
H290, H314, H400, H411
P234, P260, P264, P273, P280, P301 P330 P331, P303 P361 P353, P304 P340, P305 P351 P338, P310, P311, P321, P363, P390, P391, P405, P406, P501
NFPA 704 (fire diamond)
NFPA 704 four-colored diamondHealth 3: Short exposure could cause serious temporary or residual injury. E.g. chlorine gasFlammability 4: Will rapidly or completely vaporize at normal atmospheric pressure and temperature, or is readily dispersed in air and will burn readily. Flash point below 23 °C (73 °F). E.g. propaneInstability 3: Capable of detonation or explosive decomposition but requires a strong initiating source, must be heated under confinement before initiation, reacts explosively with water, or will detonate if severely shocked. E.g. hydrogen peroxideSpecial hazard OX: Oxidizer. E.g. potassium perchlorate
3
4
3
OX
Safety data sheet (SDS) [1]
Related compounds
Other cations
Related compounds
 Oxygen difluoride, nitrous oxide, chlorine dioxide
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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At room temperature it exists as a brownish-yellow gas which is soluble in both water and organic solvents. Chemically, it is a member of the chlorine oxide family of compounds, as well as being the anhydride of hypochlorous acid. It is a strong oxidiser and chlorinating agent.

Preparation

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The earliest method of synthesis was to treat mercury(II) oxide with chlorine gas.[3] However, this method is expensive, as well as highly dangerous due to the risk of mercury poisoning.

2 Cl2 HgO → HgCl2 Cl2O

A safer and more convenient method of production is the reaction of chlorine gas with hydrated sodium carbonate at 20–30 °C.[3]

2 Cl2 2 Na2CO3 H2O → Cl2O 2 NaHCO3 2 NaCl
2 Cl2 2 NaHCO3 → Cl2O 2 CO2 2 NaCl H2O

This reaction can be performed in the absence of water but requires heating to 150–250 °C; as dichlorine monoxide is unstable at these temperatures[4] it must therefore be continuously removed to prevent thermal decomposition.

2 Cl2 Na2CO3 → Cl2O CO2 2 NaCl

Structure

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The structure of dichlorine monoxide is similar to that of water and hypochlorous acid, with the molecule adopting a bent molecular geometry (due to the lone pairs on the oxygen atom) and resulting in C2V molecular symmetry. The bond angle is slightly larger than normal, likely due to steric repulsion between the bulky chlorine atoms.

In the solid state, it crystallises in the tetrahedral space group I41/amd, making it isostructural to the high pressure form of water, ice VIII.[5]

Reactions

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Dichlorine monoxide is highly soluble in water,[6] where it exists in an equilibrium with HOCl. The rate of hydrolysis is slow enough to allow the extraction of Cl2O with organic solvents such as CCl4,[3] but the equilibrium constant ultimately favours the formation of hypochlorous acid.[7]

2 HOCl ⇌ Cl2O H2O K (0 °C) = 3.55x10−3 dm3/mol

Despite this, it has been suggested that dichlorine monoxide may be the active species in the reactions of HOCl with olefins and aromatic compounds,[8][9] as well as in the chlorination of drinking water.[10]

With inorganic compounds

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Dichlorine monoxide reacts with metal halides, with the loss of Cl2, to form unusual oxyhalides.[11][12][3]

VOCl3 Cl2O → VO2Cl 2 Cl2
TiCl4 Cl2O → TiOCl2 2 Cl2
SbCl5 2 Cl2O → SbO2Cl 4 Cl2

Similar reactions have also been observed with certain inorganic halides.[13][14]

AsCl3 2 Cl2O → AsO2Cl 3 Cl2
NOCl Cl2O → NO2Cl Cl2

With organic compounds

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Dichlorine monoxide is an effective chlorinating agent. It can be used for either the side-chain or ring chlorination of deactivated aromatic substrates.[15] For activated aromatics such as phenols and aryl-ethers it primarily reacts to give ring halogenated products.[16] It has been suggested that dichlorine monoxide may be the active species in the reactions of HOCl with olefins and aromatic compounds.[8][9]

Photochemistry

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Dichlorine monoxide undergoes photodissociation, eventually forming O2 and Cl2. The process is primarily radical based, with flash photolysis showing radical hypochlorite (ClO·) to be a key intermediate.[17]

2 Cl2O → 2 Cl2 O2

Explosive properties

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Dichlorine monoxide is explosive, although there is a lack of modern research into this behaviour. Room temperature mixtures with oxygen could not be detonated by an electric spark until they contained at least 23.5% Cl2O[18] which is an exceedingly high minimum explosive limit. There are conflicting reports of it exploding on exposure to strong light.[19][20] Heating above 120 °C, or a rapid rate of heating at lower temperatures also apparently lead to explosions.[3] Liquid dichlorine monoxide has been reported to be shock-sensitive.[21]

References

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