An improved method for assessing relative nucleophilic substitution reactivities of polychlorinated benzenes

Chemosphere

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 78-82

  Qiu, Yanling ^a,b   Eriksson, Johan ^a   Granelli, Lisa ^a   Bergman, Åke ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Chemical stability; Nucleophile; Nucleophilic substitution; Persistency; Polychlorinated benzenes; Reactivity

Indexed keywords

BENZENE RINGS; CHLORINE ATOMS; GC-MS ANALYSIS; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; IMPROVED METHODS; MODEL COMPOUNDS; NUCLEOPHILIC AROMATIC SUBSTITUTIONS; NUCLEOPHILIC SUBSTITUTION; PENTACHLOROBENZENE; PERSISTENCY; POLYCHLORINATED BENZENES; REACTIVITY; SECOND-ORDER RATE CONSTANTS; SIDE REACTIONS; SODIUM METHOXIDES; TRICHLOROBENZENE;

BENZENE; CHEMICAL STABILITY; CHLORINE; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); METHANOL; NUCLEOPHILES; RATE CONSTANTS; SODIUM; STEREOSELECTIVITY; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CHEMICAL REACTIVITY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CHEMICAL REACTION; HYDROLYSIS; OXIDATION; PCB;

CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC; CHLOROBENZENES; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHANOL;

EID: 61549129620     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.11.045     Document Type: Article

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