Chlorine azide

Colorless gas

Gaseous

-100 ° C

-15 ° C

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Chlorine azide is a chemical compound from the group of azides.

Production and representation

Chlorine azide may be obtained by reaction of sodium azide with chlorine.

Properties

Chlorine azide is a colorless, easily decomposable, smelling of hypochlorous acid, with fluctuations in pressure and cooling ( Ausfrierung ) explosive gas. It dissolves yellow orange in carbon tetrachloride. With hydrocarbons and other solvents chlorine azide reacts slowly. In its reactions it behaves like a connection with electropositive chlorine. It was first synthesized in 1908 by Friedrich Raschig. The CIN / NN / NN distances are 1.745 / 1.252 / 1.13 A, the CLNN - angle 109 °.

Chlorine azide decomposes at a low pressure under red lights in a nitrogen and chlorine, when allowed to flow from a capillary tube into a heated gas. The spectrum of this luminescence band shows a system of four band groups.

Chlorine azide reacts with ammonia.

Use

Chlorine azide is used in organic synthesis and as an initiator in chemical gas lasers.