Translational Energy Dependence of Gas-Phase Reactions of Halides with Halogenated Alkanes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/j100179a018

The gas-phase bimolecular nucleophilic substitution reactions Br^- + CCl4 -> BrCCl3 + Cl^-, Br^- + CF2Cl2 -> BrCF2Cl + Cl^-, and Cl^- + CBr4 -> ClCBr3 + Br^- were studied as a function of the center-of-mass energy with Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance spectrometry.From the energy dependence and the threshold energies of these reactions, conclusions were drawn concerning the mechanism involved.