Chemical properties: this product is liquid, b.p.60 ℃/1.72 kPa, relative density 1.34, soluble in benzene, ethanol and chloroform, insoluble in water.
Use: 2, 3-dichloropropyronitrile is the raw material for the production of herbicide thiophensulfuron and the main raw material for the synthesis of aryl pyrrolidinitrile insecticide fenitrile.