ISSN:
0021-8383
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Organic Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
On the Pyrolysis of Unsubstituted Cyclanes - Selectivity of the Formation of Reaction Products, Kinetic Parameters, Mechanistic InterpretationsThe thermal decompostion of cyclopentane (1), cyclohexane (2), cycloheptane (3), cyclooctane (4), cyclodecane (5), and cyclododecane (6) was studied in a laboratoryscale metallic tubular reactor at 650 to 850°C in the presence of steam. The kinetic parameters for the overall reactions were determined and the gaseous as well as the liquid reaction products were analyzed and identified by gas chromatography or by the coupling of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, respectively. It could be shown that from all cyclanes the isomeric α-olefines are formed, if the conversion of the starting cyclanes is small. This supports the view that the cyclane → α-olefin isomerization is an important initial reaction in pyrolysis of 1 up to 6. The results also demonstrate that the main pathway of degradation is a radical chain mechanism via cyclanyl radicals with β(C—C) bond scission and 1.4 or 1.5-H-isomerization of alkenyl radicals as the most important reaction steps.
Additional Material:
3 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prac.19853270104
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