Dichlorine oxide (7791-21-1)

  Dichlorine oxide (CAS NO.7791-21-1) is also named as Chlorine monoxide ; Chlorine oxide (Cl2O) . Dichlorine oxide (CAS NO.7791-21-1) is red-yellow gas. It is very reactive and unstable. So it unusually stored as hydrate in frozen form. Dichlorine oxide can form chlorine and oxygen gases when decomposes in water. It can dissolve in alkalis, forming a mixture of chlorite and chlorate. It also explodes when heated or by reaction with organic materials, including: carbon, carbon disulfide, ethers, hydrocarbons, dicyanogen, any readily oxidizable materials (ammonia, potassium, arsenic, antimony, sulfur, mercury sulfide, calcium phosphide, phosphine, phosphorus, hydrogen sulfide, antimony sulfide, barium sulfide, mercury sulfide, and tin sulfide). Concentration of gas should be limited to less than 10% to reduce explosion hazard. Alcohols are oxidized explosively.