
%0 Journal Article
%A Daly, NJ 
%A Steele, LP 
%A Stimson, VR 
%T The role of t-butyl chloride as an intermediate in the hydrogen chloride catalysed decomposition of t-butyl isopropyl ether
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1973/04/01
%V 26
%N 4
%P 767-773
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9730767
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9730767 
%X The possible formation of t-butyl chloride as an intermediate in the hydrogen chloride catalysed decomposition of t-butyl isopropyl ether according to the reactions is examined. Rates for t-butyl chloride decomposition and for the overall catalysed reaction are measured at 311°C and both a fourth-order Runge-Kutta method and Hamming's modified predictor-corrector method of numerical integration are used in computing the pressure-time curves due to the assumed reaction model using experi- mental values for k , and various assumed values for k2. It is found that no values for k2 can be found which generate the experimental curves and it is concluded that t-butyl chloride is not an intermediate of the reaction. If the hydrogen chloride catalysed decomposition of t-butyl isopropyl ether is typical of the family of catalysed decompo- sitions then alkyl halides generally have no role as intermediates. 
