Viscosity-dependent cage reactions. Multiple substitutions in radical-chain chlorinations

…, H Oumar-Mahamat, CP Meintzer…

Index: Tanner, Dennis D.; Oumar-Mahamat; Meintzer, Christian P.; Tsai, Eve C.; Lu, Thanh T.; Yang, Dilun Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1991 , vol. 113, # 14 p. 5397 - 5402

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Abstract: The mechanism by which the free-radical chlorination of alkanes produces polychlorides has been explained by the assumption that the geminate chlorine atom- chloroalkane pair react in their solvent cage at rates competitive with their diffusion from, and rotation in, the cage in which they are born. The major piece of evidence supporting this mechanism is that as the concentration of alkane is increased, polyhalogenation ...