Fluoromethane

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| ImageNameR1 = Spacefill model of fluoromethane

| IUPACName = Fluoromethane

| OtherNames = Freon 41

Methyl fluoride

Halocarbon 41

Monofluoromethane

|Section1={{Chembox Identifiers

| Abbreviations = R41

| ChEMBL_Ref = {{ebicite|correct|EBI}}

| ChEMBL = 116838

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| StdInChI = 1S/CH3F/c1-2/h1H3

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| StdInChIKey = NBVXSUQYWXRMNV-UHFFFAOYSA-N

| CASNo = 593-53-3

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| UNII = 54A9X6F0CM

| PubChem = 11638

| ChemSpiderID = 11148

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| EINECS = 209-796-6

| UNNumber = UN 2454

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| KEGG = C11147

| MeSHName = Fluoromethane

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| ChEBI = 28826

| SMILES = FC

| InChI = 1/CH3F/c1-2/h1H3

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| Beilstein = 1730725

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| Formula = CH₃F

| MolarMass = 34.03 g/mol

| Appearance = Colourless gas

| Odor = pleasant, ether-like odour at high concentrations

| Density = 1.4397 g/L

0.557 g/cm³ (liquid) at saturation pressure at 25 °C

| MeltingPtC = -137.8

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| BoilingPtC = -78.4

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| Solubility = 1.66 L/kg (2.295 g/L)

| VaporPressure = 3.3 MPa

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| NFPA-H = 1

| NFPA-F = 4

| NFPA-R = 0

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Fluoromethane, also known as methyl fluoride, Freon 41, Halocarbon-41 and HFC-41, is a non-toxic, liquefiable, and flammable gas at standard temperature and pressure. It is made of carbon, hydrogen, and fluorine. The name stems from the fact that it is methane (CH₄) with a fluorine atom substituted for one of the hydrogen atoms. It is used in semiconductor manufacturing processes as an etching gas in plasma etch reactors.{{Ullmann|first1=Günter |last1=Siegemund|first2=Werner|last2=Schwertfeger|first3=Andrew|last3= Feiring|first4=Bruce|last4=Smart|first5=Fred |last5=Behr|first6=Herward|last6=Vogel|first7=Blaine|last7=McKusick|title=Fluorine Compounds, Organic|year=2002|doi=10.1002/14356007.a11_349}}

Fluoromethane (originally called "fluorohydrate of methylene") became the first organofluorine compound to be discovered{{Cite journal |last=Okazoe |first=Takashi |date=2009 |title=Overview on the history of organofluorine chemistry from the viewpoint of material industry |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjab/85/8/85_8_276/_article |journal=Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B |volume=85 |issue=8 |pages=276–289 |doi=10.2183/pjab.85.276 |pmc=3621566 |pmid=19838009|bibcode=2009PJAB...85..276O }} when it was synthesized by French chemists Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Eugène-Melchior Péligot in 1835 by distilling dimethyl sulfate with potassium fluoride.{{Cite book |last1=Crochard (París) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCpCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA36 |title=Annales de chimie et de physique |last2=Arago |first2=François |last3=Gay-Lussac |first3=Joseph Louis |date=1835 |publisher=Chez Crochard |pages=36 |language=fr}}