Identifying reactions based on chemical intuition, or just making it up

3 Identifying reactions based on chemical intuition, or just making it up 

The Cl atoms produced in (3) could then abstract a Cl atom from AICI3, AICI2, or AlCl, or they could abstract an H from H2  

Reaction (8) provides H atoms, and these can also abstract Cl from AICI3, AICI2, or AlCl, as well as from CI2  

We should also include in our preliminary mechanism all the simple bond-breaking reactions we can think of, in addition to reaction (3)  

In Table 4, we have classified the reactions into four groups (1) simple bond-breaking/forming reactions, (2) molecular elimination/insertion reactions, (3) abstractions involving H and Cl atoms, and (4) abstractions involving two Al-containing species. Even in this very simple system that involves only three different elements, only molecules containing four or 

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