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Fluoroform, or trifluoromethane, is the chemical compound with the formula . It is a hydrofluorocarbon as well as being a part of the trihalomethane, a class of compounds with the formula (X = halogen) with C3v symmetry group. Fluoroform is used in diverse applications in organic synthesis. It is not an ozone depleter but is a greenhouse gas.
It is also generated biologically in small amounts apparently by decarboxylation of trifluoroacetic acid.Kirschner, E., Chemical and Engineering News 1994, 8.
is used in the [[semiconductor]] industry in [[plasma etching]] of [[silicon oxide]] and [[silicon nitride]]. Known as R-23 or HFC-23, it was also a useful [[refrigerant]], sometimes as a replacement for chlorotrifluoromethane (CFC-13) and is a byproduct of its manufacture.
When used as a fire suppressant, the fluoroform carries the DuPont trade name, FE-13. is recommended for this application because of its low toxicity, its low reactivity, and its high density. HFC-23 has been used in the past as a replacement for Halon 1301(CFC-13B1) in fire suppression systems as a total flooding gaseous fire suppression agent.
Fluoroform is a precursor of the Ruppert-Prakash reagent , which is a source of the nucleophilic anion.Rozen, S.; Hagooly, A. "Fluoroform" in Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (Ed: L. Paquette) 2004, J. Wiley & Sons, New York.
is a potent [[greenhouse gas]]. A ton of HFC-23 in the atmosphere has the same effect as 11,700 tons of carbon dioxide. This equivalency, also called a 100-yr global warming potential, is slightly larger at 14,800 for HFC-23.The atmospheric lifetime is 270 years.
HFC-23 was the most abundant HFC in the global atmosphere until around 2001, when the global mean concentration of HFC-134a (1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane), the chemical now used extensively in automobile air conditioners, surpassed those of HFC-23. Global emissions of HFC-23 have in the past been dominated by the inadvertent production and release during the manufacture of the refrigerant HCFC-22 (chlorodifluoromethane).
Substantial decreases in HFC-23 emissions by developed countries were reported from the 1990s to the 2000s: from 6-8 Gg/yr in the 1990s to 2.8 Gg/yr in 2007.
However, research in 2024 strongly indicates that the HFC-23 emission decrease is much less than has been reported and does not meet the internationaly agreed Kigali Amendment of 2020.
The UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism provided funding and facilitated the destruction of HFC-23.
Developing countries have become the largest producers of HCFC-23 in recent years according to data compiled by the Ozone Secretariat of the World Meteorological Organization. Profits on Carbon Credits Drive Output of a Harmful Gas August 8, 2012 New York Times Subsidies for a Global Warming Gas Emissions of all HFCs are included in the UNFCCCs Kyoto Protocol. To mitigate its impact, can be destroyed with electric plasma arc technologies or by high temperature incineration.
| Density (ρ) at -100 °C (liquid) | 1.52 g/cm3 |
| Density (ρ) at -82.1 °C (liquid) | 1.431 g/cm3 |
| Density (ρ) at -82.1 °C (gas) | 4.57 kg/m3 |
| Density (ρ) at 0 °C (gas) | 2.86 kg/m3 |
| Density (ρ) at 15 °C (gas) | 2.99 kg/m3 |
| Dipole moment | 1.649 D |
| Critical pressure (pc) | 4.816 MPa (48.16 bar) |
| Critical temperature (Tc) | 25.7 °C (299 K) |
| Critical density (ρc) | 7.52 mol/l |
| Compressibility factor (Z) | 0.9913 |
| Acentric factor (ω) | 0.26414 |
| Viscosity (η) at 25 °C | 14.4 μPa.s (0.0144 cP) |
| Molar specific heat at constant volume (CV) | 51.577 J.mol−1.K−1 |
| Latent heat of vaporization (lb) | 257.91 kJ.kg−1 |
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