319-84-6 Usage
Uses
ALPHA-HCH does not have any listed uses in the provided materials. However, it is a byproduct of the insecticide Lindane, which is used for pest control.
Air & Water Reactions
Insoluble in water.
Reactivity Profile
Halogenated aliphatic compounds, such as ALPHA-HCH, are moderately or very reactive. Reactivity generally decreases with increased degree of substitution of halogen for hydrogen atoms. Materials in this group may be incompatible with strong oxidizing and reducing agents. Also, they may be incompatible with many amines, nitrides, azo/diazo compounds, alkali metals, and epoxides.
Health Hazard
ACUTE/CHRONIC HAZARDS: Carcinogen. Toxic. Irritant. Hazardous decomposition product.
Fire Hazard
Non-combustible, substance itself does not burn but may decompose upon heating to produce corrosive and/or toxic fumes. Some are oxidizers and may ignite combustibles (wood, paper, oil, clothing, etc.). Contact with metals may evolve flammable hydrogen gas. Containers may explode when heated.
Safety Profile
ConfEmed carcinogen
with experimental carcinogenic,
tumorigenic, and neoplastigenic data. Poison
by ingestion. Mutation data reported. When
heated to decomposition it emits toxic
fumes of Cl-. See also BENZENE
HEXACHLORIDE and other
benzenehexachloride entries.
Potential Exposure
The major commercial usage of BHC
is based upon its insecticidal properties. α-BCH is used as
an Agricultural chemical, pesticide, pharmaceutical, and
veterinary drug. The 7-isomer has the highest acute toxic ity, but the other isomers are not without activity. It is gen erally advantageous to purify the 7-isomer from the less
active isomers. The γ-isomer acts on the nervous system of
insects, principally at the level of the nerve ganglia. As a
result, lindane has been used against insects in a wide range
of applications including treatment of animals, buildings,
humans for ectoparasites, clothes; water for mosquitoes;
living plants; seeds and soils. Some applications have been
abandoned due to excessive residues, e.g., stored food stuffs. By voluntary action, the principal domestic producer
of technical grade BHC requested cancellation of its BHC
registrations on September 1, 1976. As of July 21, 1978, all
registrants of pesticide products containing BHC voluntar ily canceled their registrations or switched their former
BHC products to lindane formulations.
Environmental Fate
Biological. Clostridium sphenoides degraded α-BHC to δ-3,4,5,6-tetrachloro-1-cyclo hexane (Heritage and MacRae, 1977a). In four successive 7-day incubation periods, α-
BHC (5 and 10 mg/L) was recalcitrant to degradation in a settled domestic wastewater
inoculum (Tabak et al., 1981).Soil. Under aerobic conditions, indigenous microbes in contaminated soil produced
pentachlorocyclohexane. However, under methanogenic conditions, α-BHC was converted
to chlorobenzene, 3,5-dichlorophenol and the tentatively identified compound 2,4Photolytic. When an aqueous solution containing α-BHC was photooxidized by UV
light at 90–95°C, 25, 50 and 75% degraded to carbon dioxide after 4.2, 24.2 and 40.0
hours, respectively (Knoevenagel and Himmelreich, 1976). In basic, aqueous solutionChemical/Physical. Emits very toxic chloride fumes when heated to decomposition
(Lewis, 1990). α-BHC will hydrolyze via trans-dehydrochlorination of the axial chlorines
resulting in the formation of hydrochloric acid and the intermediate 1,3,4,5,6-pentachlo rocyclo-hexene. The intermediate will undergo further hydrolysis resulting in the formation
of 1,2,3-trichlorobenzene, 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene and hydrochloric acid (Kollig, 1993).
Shipping
UN2761 Organochlorine pesticides, solid, toxic,
Hazard Class: 6.1; Labels: 6.1-Poisonous materials.
Purification Methods
Crystallise it from EtOH. Purify it also by zone melting. Possible CANCER AGENT, TOXIC. [: Beilstein 1 H 23, : Beilstein 5 I 8, many isomers : Beilstein 5 III 41, 5 IV 55.]
Incompatibilities
Incompatible with oxidizers (chlorates,
nitrates, peroxides, permanganates, perchlorates, chlorine,
bromine, fluorine, etc.); contact may cause fires or explo sions. Keep away from alkaline materials, strong bases,
strong acids, oxoacids, epoxides. Decomposes on contact
with powdered iron, aluminum, zinc, and on contact with
strong bases producing trichlorobenzene.
Waste Disposal
A process has been developed
for the destructive pyrolysis of benzene hexachloride @
400 500℃ with a catalyst mixture which contains 5 10%
of either cupric chloride, ferric chloride; zinc chloride; or
aluminum chloride on activated carbon.
Check Digit Verification of cas no
The CAS Registry Mumber 319-84-6 includes 6 digits separated into 3 groups by hyphens. The first part of the number,starting from the left, has 3 digits, 3,1 and 9 respectively; the second part has 2 digits, 8 and 4 respectively.
Calculate Digit Verification of CAS Registry Number 319-84:
(5*3)+(4*1)+(3*9)+(2*8)+(1*4)=66
66 % 10 = 6
So 319-84-6 is a valid CAS Registry Number.
InChI:InChI=1/C6H6Cl6/c7-1-2(8)4(10)6(12)5(11)3(1)9/h1-6H/t1-,2-,3-,4-,5+,6+/m1/s1
319-84-6Relevant articles and documents
Ultraviolet Light Induced Dechlorination of Vicinal Polychlorocyclohexanes with Triethylamine
Takagi, Katsuhiko,Ogata, Yoshiro
, p. 1966 - 1970 (2007/10/02)
Photochemical dechlorination of trans- and cis-1,2-dichlorocyclohexanes (t-and c-DCC) in the presence of triethylamine (TEA) results in predominant dechlorination to form cyclohexene, where higher reactivity of the trans isomer over that of the cis (Φt-DCC/Φc-DCC = 4.8) is observed.Four stereoisomers of 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexanes, i.e., benzene hexaclorides (BHCs), were similarly dechlorinated to give their stereoselective benzene tetrachlorides (BTC), which mainly lose two adjacent chlorine atoms with a trans configuration to each other among the six chlorines available in BHC.Quantum efficiencies for the dechlorination of the four isomers α-, β-, γ-, and δ-BHC are 0.072, 0.060, 0.19, and 0,11, respectively, which correlate with their reduction potentials, implying that the reaction may be initiated by an electron transfer from TEA to BHC.
