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Reactivity Documentation

Nitriles

mixed with

Halogenating Agents

Summary

Details

Nitriles is a reactive group.
Halogenating Agents is a reactive group.

Reactivity Predictions (for each pair of reactive groups)

Nitriles mixed with
Halogenating Agents

Hazard Predictions

NaClO can react explosively with phenylacetonitrile, possibly due to NCl3 formation (Urben, P.G. 1995. Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, 5th Edition. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. Vol. 1. pp. 1284).

Halogens may initiate polymerization of acrylonitrile, even at reduced temperatures (MCA Case History No. 1214, Case Histories of Accidents in the Chemical Industry, Manufacturing Chemists' Association, Washington).

Acetonitrile forms the toxic, flammable, and potentially explosive difluorodiazene gas with tetrafluorourea (Fraser, G.W. et al. 1966. Chemical Communications 532).

Nitriles may react with the halogens to liberate toxic HX gases (Smith, P. A. S., Open-Chain Nitrogen Compounds, Vol. I. New York: W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1965, pp. 218).

Potential Gas Byproducts