Chloroform (data page)
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This page provides supplementary chemical data on chloroform.
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 and follow its directions.
Structure and properties
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| Index of refraction, nD | 1.4459 at 19 °C |
| Abbe number | ? |
| Dielectric constant, εr | 4.8069 ε0 at 20 °C |
| Bond strength | ? |
| Bond length[1] | C-Cl 1.75 Å |
| Bond angle[1] | Cl-C-Cl 110.3° |
| Dipole moment | 1.08 D (gas)Template:Citation needed 1.04 D[2] |
| Magnetic susceptibility | ? – Close to that of Teflon |
| Surface tension | 28.5 dyn/cm at 10 °C 27.1 dyn/cm at 20 °C 26.67 dyn/cm at 25 °C 23.44 dyn/cm at 50 °C 21.7 dyn/cm at 60 °C 20.20 dyn/cm at 75 °C |
| Viscosity[3] | 0.786 mPa·s at –10 °C 0.699 mPa·s at 0 °C 0.563 mPa·s at 20 °C 0.542 mPa·s at 25 °C 0.464 mPa·s at 40 °C 0.389 mPa·s at 60 °C |
Thermodynamic properties
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| Triple point | 209.61 K (–63.54 °C), ? Pa |
| Critical point | 537 K (264 °C), 5328.68 kPa |
| Std enthalpy change of fusion, ΔfusH |
8.8 kJ/mol |
| Std entropy change of fusion, ΔfusS |
42 J/(mol·K) |
| Std enthalpy change of vaporization, ΔvapH |
31.4 kJ/mol |
| Std entropy change of vaporization, ΔvapS |
105.3 J/(mol·K) |
| Template:Chembox header | Solid properties | |
| Std enthalpy change of formation, ΔfH |
? kJ/mol |
| Standard molar entropy, S |
? J/(mol K) |
| Heat capacity, cp | ? J/(mol K) |
| Template:Chembox header | Liquid properties | |
| Std enthalpy change of formation, ΔfH |
–134.3 kJ/mol |
| Standard molar entropy, S |
? J/(mol K) |
| Enthalpy of combustion | –473.2 kJ/mol ΔcH |
| Heat capacity, cp | 114.25 J/(mol K) |
| Template:Chembox header | Gas properties | |
| Std enthalpy change of formation, ΔfH |
–103.18 kJ/mol |
| Standard molar entropy, S |
295.6 J/(mol K) at 25 °C |
| Heat capacity, cp | 65.33 J/(mol K) at 25 °C |
| van der Waals' constants[4] | a = 1537 L2 kPa/mol2 b = 0.1022 liter per mole |
Vapor pressure of liquid
| Template:Chembox header | P in mm Hg | 1 | 10 | 40 | 100 | 400 | 760 | 1520 | 3800 | 7600 | 15200 | 30400 | 45600 |
| Template:Chembox header | T in °C | –58.0 | –29.7 | –7.1 | 10.4 | 42.7 | 61.3 | 83.9 | 120.0 | 152.3 | 191.8 | 237.5 | — |
Table data obtained from CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 44th ed.

Distillation data
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Spectral data
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| λmax | ? nm |
| Extinction coefficient, ε | ? |
| Template:Chembox header | IR | |
| Major absorption bands | 1215, 761, 668 cm−1 |
| Template:Chembox header | NMR | |
| Proton NMR | δ CDCl3 7.26 (s, 1H) |
| Carbon-13 NMR | δ CDCl3 77.2 |
| Other NMR data | |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 R. Fourme, M. Renaud, C. R. Acad. Sci, Ser. C(Chim),1966, p. 69
- ↑ CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 89th ed./David R. Lide ed.-in-chief. CRC Press: Boca Raton, 2008. – p. 9–58
- ↑ Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, 10th ed. pp. 1669–1674
- ↑ Lange's Handbook of Chemistry 10th ed, pp. 1522–1524
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- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Template:Cite web