Journal of the American Chemical Society

Kinetic evidence for the formation of azene (electron-deficient nitrogen) intermediates from aryl azides

PAS Smith, JH Hall

Index: Smith,P.A.S.; Hall,J.H. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1962 , vol. 84, p. 480 - 485

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Citation Number: 82

Abstract

The kinetics of the thermal decomposition of a group of phenyl and 2-biphenylyl azides bearing halogen, nitro, methyl or methoxy substituents have been measured at several temperatures and in different solvents. The variation of rate with substitution is small; the enthalpies and entropies of activation show a linear relation. None of these functions can be correlated satisfactorily by the Hammett equation; m-substituents have little effect on the ...