ethanoyl chloride

1. 1.

   colorless liquid acyl chloride (CH3COCl) that has a pungent odor

   Synonymsacetyl chloride

   Broaderacyl halide

Questions about ethanoyl chloride

What does ethanoyl chloride mean?

ethanoyl chloride means "colorless liquid acyl chloride (CH3COCl) that has a pungent odor".

What is another word for ethanoyl chloride?

Close synonyms include acetyl chloride. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ethanoyl chloride a common word?

ethanoyl chloride is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.