Nitryl chloride is a volatile inorganic compound with formula ClNO
2. At standard conditions it is a gas.
Formation
Nitryl chloride can be formed in the reaction of
dinitrogen pentoxide
Dinitrogen pentoxide (also known as nitrogen pentoxide or nitric anhydride) is the chemical compound with the formula . It is one of the binary nitrogen oxides, a family of compounds that contain only nitrogen and oxygen. It exists as colourless c ...
with chlorides or
hydrogen chloride
The Chemical compound, compound hydrogen chloride has the chemical formula and as such is a hydrogen halide. At room temperature, it is a colorless gas, which forms white fumes of hydrochloric acid upon contact with atmospheric water vapor. Hyd ...
:
:N
2O
5 + 2HCl
→ 2ClNO
2 + H
2O
:N
2O
5 + NaCl
→ ClNO
2 + NaNO
3
Reactions
Nitryl chloride adds to
olefins in a
radical reaction
A free-radical reaction is any chemical reaction involving free radicals. This reaction type is abundant in organic reactions. Two pioneering studies into free radical reactions have been the discovery of the triphenylmethyl radical by Moses Gomb ...
.
References
[{{Cite book , last=Stacey , first=F. W. , title=Organic Reactions , title-link=Organic Reactions , last2=Harris , first2=((J. F., Jr.)) , date=2004-04-30 , publisher=Wiley , isbn=978-0-471-26418-7 , editor-last=Denmark , editor-first=Scott E. , edition=1 , language=en , chapter=Formation of carbon-hetero atom bonds by free-radical chain additions to carbon-carbon multiple bonds , doi=10.1002/0471264180.or013.04]
Nitro compounds
Nitrogen oxohalides
Nitrogen(V) compounds
Oxychlorides
Inorganic chlorine compounds