Specificity and Non-Specificity in the Sensitized CO 2-Laser-Induced Reaction of Tetrachloroethene

BL Earl, RL Titus

Index: Earl, Boyd L.; Titus, Richard L. Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications, 2001 , vol. 66, # 11 p. 1593 - 1602

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Abstract Previous workers have investigated the reaction of tetrachloroethene using thermal initiation and CO 2-laser initiation via sensitizing species. In both instances, the principal product was found to be hexachlorobenzene. One group reported evidence of laser specificity in this reaction, in that BCl 3 acted as a sensitizer to produce hexachlorobenzene as the principal product, but SF 6 and BBr 3 did not. We have found that specificity is ...