Chloroethane Chloroethane Chloroethane or monochloroethane, commonly known by its old name ethyl chloride, is a chemical compound with chemical formula , once widely used in producing tetraethyllead, a gasoline additive. It is a colorless, flammable gas or refrigerated liquid with a faintly sweet odor. Chloroethane is produced by hydrochlorination of ethene: At various times in the past, chloroethane has also been produced from ethanol and hydrochloric acid, or from ethane and chlorine, but these routes are no longer economical. Some chloroethane is generated as a byproduct of polyvinyl chloride production. Should demand for chloroethane continue to fall to the point where
Isopropyl chloride heating 2-chloropropane with alcoholic potassium hydroxide will yield propene (an alkene) by a dehydrohalogenation reaction. However, reacting with potassium hydroxide would compete with an S2 nucleophilic substitution reaction (minor product) because the OH ion is a strong, sterically unhindered nucleophile. Because of this, potassium tert-butoxide is one example of a better reagent to use. Isopropyl chloride Isopropyl chloride (also chlorodimethylmethane, 2-propyl chloride, "sec"-propyl chloride or 2-chloropropane) is a colorless, flammable chemical compound. It has the chemical formula CHCl and is prepared by refluxing isopropyl alcohol with concentrated hydrochloric acid and zinc chloride. Structurally, isopropyl chloride is an organochlorine compound as