Department of Chemistry, University of Keele, Keele, ST5 5BG Great Britain;Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX Great Britain
Abstract:
The enthalpies of reactions 1 and 2 have been measured as ΔH(1) = ?142 ± 6 and ΔH(2) = ?112 ± 6 kJ mol?1 to determine whether thermochemical factors are a major influence in the formation of different reaction products (tcne = tetracyanoethylene).