
%0 Journal Article
%A Caines, DS 
%A Paton, RB 
%A Williams, DA 
%A Wilkinson, PR 
%T Kinetics of the successive chlorination of 1,2-dichloroethane in the liquid phase
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1969/06/01
%V 22
%N 6
%P 1177-1187
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9691177
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9691177 
%X Liquid 1,2-dichloroethane has been chlorinated by dissolved chlorine to a succession of chloroethanes up to the ultimate hexachloroethane. The results of both batch and continuous stirred tank reactor systems have been analysed by computer techniques to give a set of relative rate constants from which one can predict the product composition for a given chlorine uptake, the aim in this work being to optimize the production of tetrachloroethanes. An unusual feature of the kinetics is that 1,1,1,2- and 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethanes provide alternative pathways between 1,1,2-trichloroethane and pentachloroethane. 
