PHOTOSENSITIZED REACTIONS OF CARBON TETRAFLUORIDE
- 1 May 1950
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Research
- Vol. 28b (5) , 173-181
- https://doi.org/10.1139/cjr50b-025
Abstract
Hg (63P1) at room temperature and at 300 °C. and Hg (61P1) at room temperature fail to react with carbon tetrafluoride at a measurable rate. Xe (3P1) causes carbon tetrafluoride to decompose with a quantum efficiency of about unity to yield fluorine and an unidentified solid product. It is concluded that the energy necessary to break the first C–F bond m CF4 is more than 154 and less than 194 kcal. per mole. Hydrogen atoms produced from Hg (63P1) at room temperature and at 300 °C. and from Hg (61P1) at room temperature do not react with carbon tetrafluoride. It is concluded from this that the activation energy of the reaction CF4 + H → CF3 + HF is not less than 14 kcal. per mole.Keywords
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