Dibromofluoromethane is a mixed halomethane. It is soluble in alcohol,

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and chloroform.

Applications

It can be used to prepare bromofluoromethane by reductive debromination with organotin hydride as tributyltin hydride.

Regulations

Its

ozone depletion potential The ozone depletion potential (ODP) of a chemical compound is the relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer it can cause, with trichlorofluoromethane (R-11 or CFC-11) being fixed at an ODP of 1.0. Chlorodifluoromethane (R-22), for exampl ...

(ODP) is 1.0 and it is included in list of Class I Ozone-Depleting Substances.

References

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