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 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: ${\displaystyle \scriptstyle \log _{e}P_{mmHg}=}$${\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^[4]

Distillation data

Vapor-liquid Equilibrium for Carbon tetrachloride/n-hexane[5] 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[5] 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[5] 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−1
NMR
Proton NMR
Carbon-13 NMR
Other NMR data
MS
Masses of main fragments