oxychlorinationn.
/ˌɒksɪˌklɔːrᵻˈneɪʃn/, /ˌɒksɪˌklɒrᵻˈneɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌɑksiˌklɔrəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ Chemistry.
A chlorination reaction which uses oxygen as one of the reactants; spec. the chlorination of alkenes or alkanes using hydrogen chloride, oxygen, and a copper chloride catalyst.
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1962 Jrnl. Appl. Chem. 12 406 Special interest..attaches to the use of hydrogen chloride in oxidative chlorination, or, more briefly, oxychlorination reactions.
1984 J. Pennington in C. A. Heaton Introd. Industr. Chem. viii. 317 Similarly, in the high-temperature gas-phase oxychlorination of alkanes over supported copper chloride melts, generation of the free chlorine appears to be necessary.
1998 Metall. & Materials Trans. A. 29 1299 Oxychlorination of Cr2O3 is characterized by an apparent activation energy of about 87 and 46 kJ/mol for temperatures lower than 650 °C and higher than 700 °C.
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