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Offline Rutherford

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Cl2O+N2O5 mechanism
« on: June 01, 2013, 11:06:11 AM »
For the reaction 2Cl2O+2N2O5 :rarrow: 2NO3Cl+2NO2Cl+O2 experimental data has given the following rate law: r=k[N2O5]. Devise a mechanism for this reaction.

The first step should be:
N2O5 :rarrow: ... (slow)
As in the reaction 2 equivalents of N2O5 appear, N2O5 should react with one product of the first step. Here I am stuck. I tried with N2O3 & O2, NO3 & NO2, N2O4 & 1/2O2. Only N2O3 could react with N2O5 to form maybe 2N2O4, but what then (I can't avoid a at least three-molecular reaction)? Any ideas? Or the products were some other species?

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