Chloroacetic acidChloroacetic acid, industrially known as monochloroacetic acid (MCA), is a organochlorine compound and carboxylic acid with the formula ClCH2CO2H; it is the simplest of the chloroacetic acids. Read from the Chembox of the Wikipedia article Chloroacetic acid, revision 1380123802.

Property

Value

Formula

C2H3ClO2, 94.50 g/mol

Melting point

63 °C

Boiling point

189.3 °C

Density

1.58 g/cm³

Flash point

126 °C

log P, measured

0.22

pKa

2.86

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