
%0 Journal Article
%A Hettemn, Hinne 
%A Hore, Nathan R. 
%A Renner, Noel D. 
%A Russell, Douglas K. 
%T The Thermal Decomposition of Haloacetic Acids: a Laser Pyrolysis and Semiempirical Study.
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1997/06/30
%V 50
%N 4
%P 363-372
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/C96122
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/C96122 
%X Infrared laser-powered homogeneous pyrolysis, coupled with Fourier-transform infrared measurement of product distributions, has demonstrated that four different unimolecular mechanisms are significant in the initiation of gas-phase thermal decomposition of CH3COOH (1), CF3COOH (2), CH2ClCOOH (3), CHCl2COOH (4), CCl3COOH (5), CH2BrCOOH (6), and CH2ICOOH (7): decarboxylation and dehydration for (1); H-X elimination for (2)-(6); and C-X bond homolysis for (6) and (7). These conclusions are supported by the semiempirical calculation of activation energies for the possible pathways. 
