What is Chloromethanol???????

Answer 1

The ultraviolet photolysis of CH2I2 was studied in water and salt water solutions using photochemistry and picosecond time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy. Photolysis in both types of environments produces mainly CH2(OH)2 and HI products. However, photolysis of CH2I2 in salt water leads to the formation of different products/intermediates (CH2ICl and Cl) not observed in the absence of salt in aqueous solutions. The amount of CH2(OH)2 and HI products appears to decrease after photolysis of CH2I2 in salt water compared to pure water. We briefly discuss possible implications of these results for photolysis of CH2I2 and other polyhalomethanes in sea water and other salt aqueous environments compared to nonsalt water solvated environments.

Answer 2

The UV decomposition of chloromethyl formate and vinyl formate has been studied in low-temperature noble gas matrices at wavelengths between 200 and 260 nm.^Two distinct channels in cage photolysis were observed: (i) ClH/sub 2/COCHO ..-->..^ClH/sub 2/COH + CO; H/sub 2/CCHOCHO ..-->..^H/sub 2/CCHOH + CO.^(ii) ClH/sub 2/COCHO ..-->..^H/sub 2/CO + HCl + CO; H/sub 2/CCHOCHO ..-->..^CH/sub 3/CHO + CO.^There is a well-established wavelength dependence influencing the product ratios in these photochemical processes.^Decomposition due to irradiation at wavelengths near 250 nm prefers channel i, where the formic acid esters decompose to the corresponding alcoholic species, chloromethanol (a new compound), and vinyl alcohol.^On the other hand, at shorter wavelengths, channel ii dominates.^Neither chloromethanol nor vinyl alcohol were observed to decompose at wavelengths above 200 nm.^The photoprocesses of vinyl formate were also studied in NO-doped Ar matrices as well as in solid Xe in order to get information concerning the mechanisms of photochemical decomposition of formic acid esters.^The assignment of the vibrational spectra is based on ab inito calculations performed at the Hartree-Fock 6-31G** level for chloromethanol and at the MP2/6-31G** level for vinyl alcohol.^A detailed vibrational analysis is given for chloromethanol, chloromethanol-O-d, and vinyl alcohol.

Answer 3

ClCH2OH

Chloromethanol is toxic and when it dechlorinates, it forms hydrochloric acid (HCl) and phosgene (COCl2). Phosgene and Chlorine gas were the primary gases used for "gas warfare".