Thermal decomposition of mononitroalkanes

Conclusions The contribution of the heterogeneous reaction to the rate of the gas phase decomposition of nitroethane, 1-nitropropane, and 2-nitropropane was determined by varying the ratio of the surface to the volume of the reaction vessel (S/V).The activation energies of the homogeneous decomposition of the enumerated compounds differ from the literature data.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1412–1416, July, 1971.