Trimethylsilyl chloride
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| General | ||
| Systematic name | Trimethylsilyl chloride | |
| Other names | Chlorotrimethylsilane TMSCl |
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| Molecular formula | (CH3)3SiCl | |
| SMILES | xxxx | |
| Molar mass | 108.94 g/mol | |
| Appearance | Colorless liquid, fumes in moist air | |
| CAS number | [75-77-4] | |
| Properties | ||
| Density and phase | 0.856 g/cm3, liquid | |
| Solubility in water | reacts | |
| Melting point | −40 °C (233.2 K) | |
| Boiling point | 57 °C (330.2 K) | |
| Viscosity | xxx P at 20 °C | |
| Structure | ||
| Molecular shape | tetrahedral at Si | |
| Dipole moment | xxx D | |
| Hazards | ||
| MSDS | External MSDS | |
| EU classification | Flammable (F) Corrosive (C) |
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| R-phrases | R11, R14, R20, R21, R35, R37 | |
| S-phrases | S16, S26, S36, S37, S39, S45 | |
| Flash point | −28 °C | |
| Autoignition temperature | 400 °C | |
| RTECS number | VV2710000 | |
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| Structure & properties | n, εr, etc. | |
| Thermodynamic data | Phase behaviour Solid, liquid, gas |
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| Spectral data | UV, IR, NMR, MS | |
| Related compounds | ||
| Related halosilanes | Trimethylsilyl fluoride Trimethylsilyl bromide Trimethylsilyl iodide |
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Trimethylsilyl chloride, also known as chlorotrimethylsilane is a silyl halide, with a variety of different uses in chemistry. It has the formula (CH3)3SiCl, and under standard conditions it is a colourless liquid, which is stable in the absence of water. It can be prepared from silicon tetrachloride by nucleophillic substitution of three of the chloride groups with a nucleophillic methyl source such as methyllithium, however the compound is readily availible commercially.
[edit] Uses
Trimethylsilyl chloride has variety of uses in chemistry, both as a source of the trimethylsilyl group, and as an anhydrous source of chloride. Functional groups such as alcohols and amines readily undergo reaction with trimethylsilyl chloride, giving trimethylsilyl ethers and trimethylsilyl amines. These new groups can be used as protecting groups for the original functional group, however the liability of the trimethylsilyl group restricts their utility. The trimethylsilylation can also be used to increase a compounds volatility, enabling gas chromatography of normally non-volatile substances such as glucose. Trimethylsilyl chloride also reacts with metal acetylides to give trimethylsilyl alkynes, which are useful protected forms of alkynes.
The reaction of trimethylsilyl chloride with alcohols gives rise to an equivalent of hydrogen chloride. This reaction can be exploited to create anhydrous solutions of hydrochloric acid in alcohols, which find use in the mild synthesis of esters and acetals from carboxylic acids and ketones respectively.
In the presence of triethylamine and lithium diisopropylamide, enolisable aldehydes, ketones and esters are converted to trimethylsilyl enol ethers. Despite their inherent instability, these compounds have found wide application in organic chemistry; oxidation of the double bond by epoxidation or dihydroxylation can be used to return the original carbonyl group with an alcohol group at the alpha carbon. The trimethylsilyl enol ethers can also be used as masked enolate equivalents in the Mukaiyama aldol addition.
Trimethylsilyl chloride can also be used as a starting material to prepare other trimethylsilyl halides and pseudohalides, such as:
- Trimethylsilyl fluoride
- Trimethylsilyl bromide
- Trimethylsilyl iodide
- Trimethylsilyl cyanide [1]
- Trimethylsilyl azide [2]
These compounds are produced by an exchange reaction between trimethylsilyl chloride (TMS-Cl) and a salt of the (pseudo)halide (MX):
- MX + TMS-Cl → MCl + TMS-X
