CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
| Physical Description | Chlorine monoxide is a red-yellow gas. Very reactive and unstable. Unusually stored as hydrate in frozen form. Used as a wood bleach, biocide and swimming pool treatment. |
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| Color/Form | Reddish-brown liquid |
| Odor | Disagreeable, penetrating odor |
| Boiling Point | 2.2 °C |
| Melting Point | -120.6 °C |
| Solubility | Very soluble in water |
| Density | 3.552 g/L |
| Henry's Law Constant | Henry's Law constant = 14.23 kPa/mol |
| Decomposition | Decomposes at moderate rate at room temperature. ... Suffers photochemical and thermal decomposition: at 100-140 °C there is an induction period, followed by a second order reaction ... . |
| Heat of Vaporization | 26.3 kJ/mol |
| Other Experimental Properties | Can be stored in carbon tetrachloride |
COMPUTED DESCRIPTORS
| Molecular Weight | 86.90 g/mol |
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| XLogP3 | 1.6 |
| Hydrogen Bond Donor Count | 0 |
| Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count | 1 |
| Rotatable Bond Count | 0 |
| Exact Mass | 85.9326200 g/mol |
| Monoisotopic Mass | 85.9326200 g/mol |
| Topological Polar Surface Area | 9.2 Ų |
| Heavy Atom Count | 3 |
| Formal Charge | 0 |
| Complexity | 2.8 |
| Isotope Atom Count | 0 |
| Defined Atom Stereocenter Count | 0 |
| Undefined Atom Stereocenter Count | 0 |
| Defined Bond Stereocenter Count | 0 |
| Undefined Bond Stereocenter Count | 0 |
| Covalently-Bonded Unit Count | 1 |
| Compound Is Canonicalized | Yes |
PRODUCT INTRODUCTION
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Chlorine monoxide is a red-yellow gas. Very reactive and unstable. Unusually stored as hydrate in frozen form. Used as a wood bleach, biocide and swimming pool treatment.