Hexachloroethane is an industrial chlorinated solvent with a faint, camphor-like, slightly sweet chemical odor. It is not a perfumery material and has no meaningful role in fragrance formulation.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 649.
Colorless crystals.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Mild camphor-like odor of moderate tenacity, and not as 'medicinal' as camphor.
Although it is not truly a fragrance material, it may occasionally find use as a substitute for camphor in industrial odors, e.g. when camphor prices are high.
1) by chlorination of acetylene tetrachloride in sunlight or in the presence of aluminum chloride. 2) by heating carbon tetrachloride with aluminum amalgam.