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Carbon Tetrachloride is found in Cleaning Products such as Pinesol

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Carbon Tetrachloride is found in Cleaning Products such as Pinesol

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Carbon Tetrachloride is covalent bond that is created with 4 chlorine atoms connected to one central carbon atom. The molecule is also non-polar meaning it has evenly distributed electrical charges.

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The Chemical formula of the compound is written out as the following -
CCl₄

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Carbon tetrachloride was originally synthesized by the French chemist Henri Victor Regnault in 1839 by the reaction of chloroform with chlorine,[3] but now it is mainly produced from methane:

CH4 + 4 Cl2 → CCl4 + 4 HCl

The production often utilizes by-products of other chlorination reactions, such as from the syntheses of dichloromethane and chloroform. Higher chlorocarbons are also subjected to "chlorinolysis":

C2Cl6 + Cl2 → 2 CCl4

Prior to the 1950s, carbon tetrachloride was manufactured by the chlorination of carbon disulfide at 105 to 130 °C

CS2 + 3Cl2 → CCl4 + S2Cl2

The production of carbon tetrachloride has steeply declined since the 1980s due to environmental concerns and the decreased demand for CFCs, which were derived from carbon tetrachloride. In 1992, production in the U.S./Europe/Japan was estimated at 720,000 tonnes.

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Carbon Tetrachloride Molecular Model (4)

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*tetrachloromethane
*carbon tet
*Halon-104
*Refrigerant-10