Chemical Property of Silacyclohexane, 1-chloro-
Chemical Property:
- Vapor Pressure:9.66mmHg at 25°C
- Boiling Point:135.2oC at 760 mmHg
- Flash Point:22.3oC
- PSA:0.00000
- LogP:2.13290
- Hydrogen Bond Donor Count:0
- Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count:0
- Rotatable Bond Count:0
- Exact Mass:133.0240295
- Heavy Atom Count:7
- Complexity:50
- Purity/Quality:
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98% *data from raw suppliers
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SDS file from LookChem
Useful:
- Canonical SMILES:C1CC[Si](CC1)Cl
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General Description
1-Chloro-1-silacyclohexane exists as a mixture of two chair conformers (axial and equatorial) in the gas and liquid phases, with the axial conformer being energetically favored over the equatorial one by approximately -0.50 ± 0.15 kcal mol-1. This preference arises primarily from electrostatic stabilization, despite steric and conjugation effects disfavoring the axial form. The conformational behavior is consistent across halogenated silacyclohexanes (Cl, Br, I), with axial preference contrasting the equatorial trend seen in analogous cyclohexane derivatives. Quantum-chemical calculations (CCSD(T), MP2, DFT) and experimental methods (gas electron diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, NMR) confirm this equilibrium.