Journal of the American Chemical Society

Mechanism of the free-radical reactions of cyanogen and cyanogen chloride with hydrocarbon substrates

DD Tanner, NJ Bunce

Index: Tanner,D.D.; Bunce,N.J. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1969 , vol. 91, p. 3028 - 3034

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Citation Number: 18

Abstract

Abstract: Both the free-radical reactions of cyanogen chloride and cyanogen with hydrocarbon substrates proceed by chain mechanisms involving intermediate imidyl radicals. In the reaction of cyanogen with 2, 3-dimethylbutane the imidyl radical was found to be the chain-carrying species while in the reactions of cyanogen chloride with a variety of hydrocarbons, the imidyl intermediate undergoes a@-scission reaction producing the ...