The pyrolysis kinetics of 4-chloro-2-butanone in the gas phase

✍ Scribed by Rosa M. Dominguez; Gabriel Chuchani

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 273 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0538-8066
• DOI: 10.1002/kin.550130406

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The rates of pyrolysis of 4‐chloro‐2‐butanone in the gas phase have been determined in a static system seasoned with the products of decomposition of allyl bromide. The reaction is catalyzed by hydrogen chloride. Under maximum catalysis of HCl, the kinetics were found to be of order 1.5 in the substrate suggesting that a complex elimination is involved. The reaction, when maximally inhibited with propene, appears to undergo a unimolecular elimination and follows a first‐order law kinetics. The products are methylvinyl ketone and hydrogen chloride. The kinetics have been measured over the temperature range of 402.0–424.4°C.The rate coefficients are given by the Arrhenius equation \documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$ \log k_1 (\sec ^{ - 1}) = (13.67 \pm 0.69) - (225.2 \pm 8.6),{\rm kj}/{\rm mol}/2.303RT\angle $\end{document}. Thepyrolysis of 4‐chloro‐2‐butanone is 31 times greater in rate than that of ethyl chloride at 440°C. This large difference in rate may be attributed to the ‐M effect of the acetyl substituent in the pyrolysis of the former halo compound.