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The Free Radical Reaction between Alkanes and Carbon Tetrachloride
Hawari, J. A.,Davis, S.,Engel, P. S.,Gilbert, B. C.,Griller, D.
, p. 4721 - 4724 (1985)
Product studies and kinetic electron paramagnetic resonance methods were used to investigate the free radical reaction between alkanes and carbon tetrachloride in solution.Trichloromethyl radicals abstracted hydrogen from simple alkanes with rate constants of ca. 60 M-1 s-1 at 300 K. in good agreement with gas-phase data.However, rate constants for chlorine abstraction by alkyl radicals from carbon tetrachloride were ca.E4 M-1 s-1 and were therefore ca. 2 orders of magnitude higher in solution than in the gas phase.Possibilities for the origin of this effect are discussed.
