The Mechanism of Fluorination. I. Fluorine Sensitized Oxidation of Trichloro-and Tetrachloroethylene

WT Miller Jr, AL Dittman

Index: Miller; Dittman Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1956 , vol. 78, p. 2793,2796

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Citation Number: 51

Abstract

Fluorine is shown to promote the reaction of oxygen with trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene at low temperatures to produce acid halides. The products obtained correspond to those produced by photochemical chlorine sensitized oxidation but with initiation by fluorine rather than by chlorine atoms. These results furnish convincing evidence that the free radical chain initiation step consists of reaction between fluorine ...