Organometallics

FT-IR Study of the Gas-Phase Thermolysis of Triethylgermane

PG Harrison, AC Torr

Index: Harrison, Philip G.; Torr, Ashley C. Organometallics, 1995 , vol. 14, p. 3507 - 3515

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Abstract

Thermolysis of neat triethylgermane in the temperature range 628-653 K gives as products ethene, ethane, and diethylgermane in the ratio 48: 14: 1 and a silvery metallic film which contains some incorporated ethyl groups. Loss of triethylgermane over the whole temperature range follows second-order kinetics with an activation energy of 305 (7) kJ mol- l. Second-order rate constants vary from 1.35 mol-l L sl at 628 K to 12.9 mol-l L sl at 653 K. ...