Reactivities / Incompatibilities
On treatment with strong alkalis at high temperatures it loses hydrogen chloride.
Copper, oxidizers, aluminum, peroxides, iron, steel. [Note: polymerizes in air, sunlight, or heat unless stabilized by inhibitors such as phenol. Attacks iron and steel in presence of moisture.]
Reacts with aluminum, aluminum alloys, or copper.
An explosion in a valve in a liquid monomer line was ascribed to traces of oxides of nitrogen remaining after the valve had been passivated by treatment with nitric acid.
Vinyl chloride tends to self-polymerise explosively if peroxidation occurs ... .