Hydrogen halide decomposition

Problem In order to study hydrogen halide decomposition, a researcher fills an evacuated... 

Dissociation of HI is the only exothermic process in the set of hydrogen halide decompositions ... 

Problem In order to study hydrogen halide decomposition, a researcher fills an evacuated 2.00-L flask with 0.200 mol of HI gas and allows the reaction to proceed at 453°C ... 

The majority of preparative methods which have been used for obtaining cyclopropane derivatives involve carbene addition to an olefmic bond, if acetylenes are used in the reaction, cyclopropenes are obtained. Heteroatom-substituted or vinyl cydopropanes come from alkenyl bromides or enol acetates (A. de Meijere, 1979 E. J. Corey, 1975 B E. Wenkert, 1970 A). The carbenes needed for cyclopropane syntheses can be obtained in situ by a-elimination of hydrogen halides with strong bases (R. Kdstcr, 1971 E.J. Corey, 1975 B), by copper catalyzed decomposition of diazo compounds (E. Wenkert, 1970 A S.D. Burke, 1979 N.J. Turro, 1966), or by reductive elimination of iodine from gem-diiodides (J. Nishimura, 1969 D. Wen-disch, 1971 J.M. Denis, 1972 H.E. Simmons, 1973 C. Girard, 1974),... 

Similar mechanisms of course can be written for the reaction with the other hydrogen halide acids, and indeed for the relatively slow decomposition of N-chloroacetanilide in solutions of other strong acids15, viz. 

The hydrogen reduction of the metal halides, described in Sec. 1.2, is generally the favored reaction for metal deposition but is not suitable for the platinum-group metals since the volatilization and decomposition temperatures of their halides are too close to provide efficient vapor transport. 1 1 For that reason, the decomposition of the carbonyl halide is preferred. The exception is palladium which is much more readily deposited by hydrogen reduction than by the carbonyl-halide decomposition. 

Carbenes from Halides by a-Elimination. The a-elimination of hydrogen halide induced by strong base (Scheme 10.8, Entry 4) is restricted to reactants that do not have (3-hydrogens, because dehydrohalogenation by (3-elimination dominates when it can occur. The classic example of this method of carbene generation is the generation of dichlorocarbene by base-catalyzed decomposition of chloroform.152... 

The photoadditions of halogens, hydrogen halides, and alkylhalides to olefins have been extensively documented.<107) Photohalogenation reactions occur by absorption of light by the halogen, leading to excitation of a non-bonded p electron to an antibonding a excited level, followed by decomposition of the molecule into free radicals ... 

Hydrocarbons and hydrogen halides are omitted since they will be dealt with elsewhere.) The chemical properties of most of these hydrides are rather well known, but this cannot be asserted for their decomposition kinetics. Some of them are very stable (H20, HF, NH3) while others decompose easily at room temperature (TeH2, PbH4). A study of the homogeneous decomposition has only been undertaken for those elements inside the frame in the Table. The pyrolyses of the others have either been found to proceed heterogeneously or the kinetics is unknown. 

Some halo-substituted anilines are of limited thermal stability, tending to eliminate hydrogen halide which may catalyse further decomposition. To avoid decomposition during distillation, this should be conducted in the presence of solid alkali or magnesium oxide at minimum temperature (under relatively high vacuum) and/or with exclusion of air by inert gas. Individually indexed compounds are 4-Bromoaniline, 2296... 

The influence of light on the three gaseous systems in quartz, uviol, and Jena glass vessels, which permitted the determination of photochemical equilibrium in three different parts of the spectrum, has been investigated from both sides of the equilibrium X2+H2 2HX, by A. Coehn and K. Stuckardt. The percentage decompositions of the hydrogen halides are as follows ... 

Most known chemical lasers oscillate on vibration-rotation transitions of a hydrogen halide. The first such laser was driven by the flash initiated explosion of H2 + C12 mixtures287. Here the flash dissociates the Cl2 to start the chain decomposition, and the population inversion is due to the subsequent reactions... 

In this case, as with all other hydrogen halide lasers, only P branch transitions are observed, indicating that only partial inversion is attained. The vibrational transitions observed are 1 - 0 and 2 -+ 1. There is a definite threshold flash energy, below which no laser action is observed because the chain decomposition is not fast enough. The development in time of the emission spectrum was observed and discussed in terms of rotational relaxation. 

The elimination reaction between metal hydrides and tin halides is another useful route to the formation of the tin-metal bond (equations 90 and 91)243,244,294 p(lc presence of a base to remove the hydrogen halide is often necessary to prevent decomposition reactions. ... 

These compounds are liquids or low melting solids with characteristic foul and persistent odors. They can be stored under an inert atmosphere in the refrigerator for long periods without decomposition. At 20° they decompose slowly to diorgano ditellurium derivatives while in air, tellurium is deposited. Protic agents such as water, hydrogen halides, and alcohols cleave the tellurium-group TV element bond. 

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