| Abstract: | The Pyrolysis of ethyl formate has been carried out in the temperature range 557°–630° and the rate expression k = 1012.34 e?48,100±500/RT sec?1 was obtained, in agreement with the prediction of O'Neal and Benson [1]. Calculated Arrhenius A-factors and experimental rate constants have been used to obtain the activation energies for the decomposition of the following compounds by the six-center molecular mechanism (in kcal/mole): 2-pentanone 59; methoxyacetone, 58; 2,4-pentanedione, 51; methyl butyrate, ≥ 70; 1-heptene, 54, and 4-methyl-1-hexene, 54–55. |
