Trifluoroacetic acid

CAS: 76-05-1
Molecular Formula: CF3COOH
Molecular Weight: 114.02
Product description:Colourless liquid. Pungent smell. Has the water absorbability. Can smoke. Is a kind of strong rather than oxidizing acid. With diethyl ether, acetone, ethanol, benzene, carbon tetrachloride and hexane mixed solvent. Relative density (d20) 1.5351. Melting point - 15.4 ℃. Boiling point 72.4 ℃.Is a good solvent of many organic compounds, such as share with carbon disulfide and soluble protein. It is also excellent solvent of organic reactions, can be obtained in the general solvent is difficult to get the results, such as quinoline catalytic hydrogenation in ordinary solvents, the pyridine ring priority hydrogenation, but in trifluoroacetic acid benzene hydrogenation. Trifluoroacetic acid in the presence of aniline is decomposed into chloroform and carbon dioxide.