Product Profile of Allyl Chloride

Aditya Birla Management Corporation Limited is the manufacturer of Allyl Chloride. Aditya Birla Management Corporation Limited is an ISO-9001:2000, ISO-14001, OSHAS-18001, BS-8800 and TIS-18001 certified company.

Specifications of Allyl Chloride are:

• Appearance: Clear colour

• Odour: Unpleasant pungent

• Molecular weight: 76.53

• Density: 0.9392 g/ml at 20 degree C

• Boiling point: 45 degree C

• Melting point: -134.5 degree C

• Vapour pressure: 340 mm Hg at 20 degree C

• Solubility in water: 1-10 mg/ml at 19 degree C

• Refractive index: 1.4157 at 20 degree C

• Surface tension: 28.9 dynes/cm


Applications of Allyl Chloride are:

• Used as chemical intermediate in the preparation of glycerin, glycerol chlorohydrins, glycidyl ethers, allylamines and allyl ethers of trimethylpropane, sodium allyl sulphonate, series of allyl amines and quaternary ammonium salts, allyl ethers and variety of alcohols, phenols and polyols.

• Used in pharmaceuticals as a raw material for the production of allyl isothiocyanate [synthetic mustard oil], allyl substituted barbiturates [sedatives] and cyclopropane [anaesthetic]

• Used in the manufacture of speciality resins for water treatment

• Used to produce babiturate and hyponotic agents such as aprobarbital, butalbital, methohexital sodium, secobarbital, talbutal and thiamyl sodium