The Reaction of Hydrogen Atoms with Carbon Tetrachloride

摘要

Reaction rate constants have been obtained at seven temperatures between 21° and 200° for the reaction H+CCl4=HCl+CCl3. The change of reaction rate with temperature is satisfactorily represented by the classical bimolecular reaction theory with a steric factor of 0.007 and an activation energy of 3.45 kcal. per mole. A comparison of the amount of HCl formed with the number of hydrogen atoms entering indicates that complete conversion of atomic hydrogen into HCl by the reaction may be attained at 150–200° under conditions which are determined in the experiments.