Hypochlorous acid
A chlorine oxoacid with formula HOCl; a weak, unstable acid, it is the active form of chlorine in water. — ChEBI
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Identity & molecular properties
Source-linked values| CAS number | 7790-92-3 | ChEBI ↗ |
| Molecular formula | HClO | ChEBI ↗ |
| Molar mass | 52.46 g/mol | ChEBI ↗ |
| Monoisotopic mass | 51.97159 Da | ChEBI ↗ |
| Formal charge | 0 | ChEBI ↗ |
| ChEBI identifier | CHEBI:24757 | ChEBI ↗ |
Names & structural identifiers
Copy any identifierhypochlorous acidchloranolQWPPOHNGKGFGJK-UHFFFAOYSA-NOClInChI=1S/ClHO/c1-2/h2HNames & synonyms
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Classification & relationships
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Mass ↔ amount of substance
Calculated from sourced massUses 52.46 g/mol from ChEBI. Assumes the substance described by this record; no purity or concentration correction is applied.
Elemental composition
Theoretical mass fractionsClOHCalculated theoretical mass fractions from the reported formula and PubChem periodic-table atomic masses. These are not assay or purity results.
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Selected source associationsSources & record history
Checked 27 Sep 2026Release 255, 9 September 2026. ChEBI three-star (manually annotated) source entry. View original record ↗ · CC BY 4.0
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